BRUNO v. BRUNO

4186.

83 A.D.3d 165 (2011)

LISA BRUNO, Appellant-Respondent, v. STEPHEN BRUNO et al., Respondents-Appellants, and DALTON GREINER HARTMAN MAHER & CO., LLC, et al., Respondents.

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

Decided April 12, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brown & Whalen, P.C., New York City ( Rodney A. Brown and Melissa Alcantara of counsel), for appellant-respondent.

Wachtel & Masyr LLP, New York City ( Evan S. Weintraub and George E. Patterson, Jr. of counsel), for Stephen Bruno, respondent-appellant.

Matalon Shweky Elman PLLC, New York City ( Howard I. Elman and Yosef Rothstein of counsel), for Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., respondent-appellant.

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York City ( Kenneth E. Lee of counsel), for respondents.

SAXE, J.P., FRIEDMAN, CATTERSON and RICHTER, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ACOSTA, J.

This action requires us to apply the doctrine of collateral estoppel to a judicial determination of a sister state. Specifically, we consider the preclusive effect of a determination in a contempt motion in the context of a divorce proceeding in Connecticut, which expressly found that the husband and his former employer did not engage in a fraudulent scheme to deprive the wife of assets in equitable distribution, on a New...

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