Ordered that the order and decree is affirmed, with costs.
The respondents established prima facie their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law dismissing the petitioner's constructive trust claim. While the constructive trust doctrine is broad in scope, and such trusts "will be erected whenever necessary to satisfy the demands of justice" (Latham v Father Divine, 299 N.Y. 22, 27 [1949]; see Simonds v Simonds,
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