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Noy v. Noy

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
Apr 18, 2018
160 A.D.3d 887 (N.Y. App. Div. 2018)

Opinion

2016–05553 Index No. 201724/14

04-18-2018

Sharon NOY, respondent, v. Isaac NOY, appellant.

Barket Epstein & Kearon, LLP, Garden City, N.Y. (Elaine Jackson Stack of counsel), for appellant. Sager Gellerman Eisner LLP, Forest Hills, N.Y. (Alyssa Eisner of counsel), for respondent.


Barket Epstein & Kearon, LLP, Garden City, N.Y. (Elaine Jackson Stack of counsel), for appellant.

Sager Gellerman Eisner LLP, Forest Hills, N.Y. (Alyssa Eisner of counsel), for respondent.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P., CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, COLLEEN D. DUFFY, FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, JJ.

DECISION & ORDER In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Stacy D. Bennett, J.), dated March 2, 2016. The order denied the defendant's motion for a protective order pursuant to CPLR 3103(a), in effect, to stay disclosure of financial information unless a proposed confidentiality agreement relating to financial information obtained in discovery is signed.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.

After the plaintiff commenced this action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant moved for a protective order pursuant to CPLR 3103(a), in effect, to stay disclosure of financial information unless a proposed confidentiality agreement relating to financial information obtained in discovery is signed. In an order dated March 2, 2016, the Supreme Court denied the motion. The defendant appeals.

Pursuant to CPLR 3103(a), a court may issue a protective order denying, limiting, conditioning, or regulating the use of disclosure devices upon a showing that unreasonable annoyance, expense, embarrassment, disadvantage, or other prejudice to the parties or others can be prevented by the issuance of such an order. " ‘The supervision of disclosure and the setting of reasonable terms and conditions therefor rests within the sound discretion of the trial court and, absent an improvident exercise of that discretion, its determination will not be disturbed’ " ( Spodek v. Neiss, 70 A.D.3d 810, 810, 892 N.Y.S.2d 914, quoting Mattocks v. White Motor Corp., 258 A.D.2d 628, 629, 685 N.Y.S.2d 764 ; see Kaplan v. Herbstein, 175 A.D.2d 200, 572 N.Y.S.2d 78 ).

Here, the defendant failed to demonstrate unreasonable annoyance, embarrassment, disadvantage, or prejudice to warrant the issuance of a protective order pertaining to the parties' disclosure of financial information (see CPLR 3103[a] ; see generally Cascardo v. Cascardo, 136 A.D.3d 729, 730, 24 N.Y.S.3d 742 ). Accordingly, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendant's motion.

The defendant's remaining contention is improperly raised for the first time on appeal and, therefore, is not properly before this Court.

MASTRO, J.P., CHAMBERS, DUFFY and CONNOLLY, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Noy v. Noy

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
Apr 18, 2018
160 A.D.3d 887 (N.Y. App. Div. 2018)
Case details for

Noy v. Noy

Case Details

Full title:Sharon NOY, respondent, v. Isaac NOY, appellant.

Court:Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.

Date published: Apr 18, 2018

Citations

160 A.D.3d 887 (N.Y. App. Div. 2018)
2018 N.Y. Slip Op. 2639
73 N.Y.S.3d 900

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