41 A.D.2d 642 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1973
The defendant husband appeals from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, entered February 10,- 1972, after a nonjury trial, granting plaintiff a divorce, as awarded plaintiff alimony, child support and an- additional counsel fee, including provisions with respect to school tuition and camp expenses for the parties’ child, medical and dental expenses,, and insurance. Judgment modified, on the law, by (1) striking from the fifth- decretal paragraph thereof the phrase “to pay any school tuition costs for the infant child of the parties, Lorie Ann Enos, and”; (2) adding to the fifth decretal paragraph a provision that defendant shall not be obligated to pay for support of the parties’ child while she is in summer camp (that paragraph directs defendant to pay camp expanses)'; and (3) striking the seventh decretal paragraph (which requires defendant to maintain a life insurance policy) .in its entirety. As so modified,' judgment affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs. There is no evidence in the record that supports a finding of special or unusual circumstances necessitating a direction by the court that defendant send his child to private school. Furthermore, plaintiff concedes this fact and has no objection to deletion of .the provision concerning tuition. Additionally, payment of child support at the same time that defendant is paying for the child’s stay at summer camp is an unwarranted duplication. Finally, it is our opinion that the trial court was without authority to order defendant to maintain an existing insurance t .lev on his life with plaintiff • designated as beneficiary therein. Section 236 of the Domestic Relations Law does not authorize continuance of alimony upo:, a husband’s death. Absent such provision, the obligation to pay alimony ceases upon death. (Wilson v. Hinman, 182 N. T. 408, 412). Since life insura;. . is designed to provide for payments upon the insured’s death, it is not v iViin the purview of the statutorily authorized
One of these circumstances is the fact that the wife, in procuring a divorce, loses all rights of inheritance; however, if she had obtained a separation upon the same grounds, she would still enjoy the expectation of the rights of a surviving spouse (EPTL 5-1.2).