Badgett v Badgett
2003 NY Slip Op 19205 [2 AD3d 379]
December 1, 2003
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 25, 2004


Dorothy M. Badgett, Respondent,
v
Karl B. Badgett, Appellant.

—In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by judgment entered October 29, 1982, the defendant former husband appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Dolan, J.), dated July 17, 2002, as denied his motion to vacate the judgment of divorce pursuant to CPLR 5015 (a) (3).

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The defendant failed to meet his burden of establishing the existence of fraud, misrepresentation, or other misconduct on the plaintiff's part sufficient to entitle him to vacatur of the judgment of divorce pursuant to CPLR 5015 (a) (3) (see Matter of Shere L. v Odell H., 303 AD2d 1023 [2003]).

The defendant's remaining contentions are without merit. Ritter, J.P., Smith, Goldstein and H. Miller, JJ., concur.