SCHUPAK v. SCHUPAK


288 A.D.2d 91 (2001)

732 N.Y.S.2d 858

BARBARA SCHUPAK, Respondent-Appellant, v. LEONARD SCHUPAK, Appellant-Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided November 15, 2001.


Whether to award permanent maintenance is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court (see, Domestic Relations Law § 236 [B] [6] [a]; Spencer v Spencer, 230 A.D.2d 645, 648). Here, given the length of the marriage, the wife's poor health, her age, the court's well-supported finding that she was incapable of working, and the husband's very substantial financial resources, the court properly exercised its discretion...

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