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WASHINGTON v. JANATI

12846, 311100/11.

118 A.D.3d 603 (2014)

987 N.Y.S.2d 842

2014 NY Slip Op 4692

EBONY D. WASHINGTON, Respondent, v. MEHDI JANATI, Appellant.

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

Decided June 24, 2014.

Defendant failed to demonstrate a reasonable excuse for his default (see CPLR 5015 [a]; Benson Park Assoc., LLC v Herman, 73 A.D.3d 464, 465 [1st Dept 2010]). His bare contentions that he did not understand the consequences of the fraud ground in Domestic Relations Law § 140 (e) and that he could not afford an attorney do not constitute reasonable excuses for his failure to appear in the action.

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