The award of lifetime maintenance to plaintiff was appropriate, considering her advanced age, the fact that she subordinated her career to caring for the parties' child and supporting defendant's efforts to start his own business, and her likely inability to become self-supporting (see Domestic Relations Law § 236 [B] [6] [a]). However, the award of an automatic increase in maintenance "on the occurrence of [one] given fact"—i.e., upon the emancipation...
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