Court Opinion

ID: 6088332
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Date Created: 2022-01-13 19:36:01.177506+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:52:29.188710
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—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Marylin Diamond, J.), entered May 30, 2001, which, insofar as appealed from, equitably distributed the marital property and awarded maintenance and child support, with related relief, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The trial court properly exercised its discretion in awarding defendant maintenance for three years (see Anonymous v Anonymous, 289 AD2d 106, 107). The award was fair, given the parties’ predivorce standard of living and reasonable needs (see Kirschenbaum v Kirschenbaum, 264 AD2d 344). Plaintiffs contention that he will be unable to make the required maintenance payments is not persuasive (cf. Kyle v Kyle, 156 AD2d 508, 509).
The trial court also properly exercised its discretion in distributing the marital property. In making the distributive award, the court properly was appropriately cognizant of the value of plaintiffs medical specialty, even though plaintiff was not yet board certified in that specialty at the time of trial (see Procario v Procario, 164 Misc 2d 79, 81-82). Having discredited defendant’s expert on enhanced earnings, the court properly based its findings on other evidence (see Vicinanzo v Vicinanzo, 193 AD2d 962, 967).
We have considered plaintiffs remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur — Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Buckley and Lerner, JJ.