Scopelliti v Scopelliti
2008 NY Slip Op 04679 [51 AD3d 902]
May 20, 2008
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 16, 2008


Joseph C. Scopelliti, Plaintiff,
v
Maria C. Scopelliti, Defendant. (Action No. 1.) Maria C. Scopelliti, Respondent, v Robert L. Scopelliti et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. (Action No. 2.)

[*1] Carl F. Lodes, Carmel, N.Y., for appellants Robert L. Scopelliti and Joseph C. Scopelliti (separate briefs filed).

Kitson Kitson & Bisesto, LLP, White Plains, N.Y. (Patricia T. Bisesto of counsel), for respondent.

In two related actions which were joined for trial, inter alia, for a divorce and ancillary relief and to set aside a conveyance as fraudulent, Joseph C. Scopelliti and Robert L. Scopelliti, defendants in action No. 2, separately appeal, as limited by their respective briefs, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Jamieson, J.), dated May 14, 2007, as granted that branch of the motion of the plaintiff in action No. 2 which was for summary judgment on the first cause of action alleging fraudulent conveyance of the former marital residence.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with one bill of costs to the appellants, and that branch of the motion of the plaintiff in action No. 2 which was for summary judgment in action No. 2 on the first cause of action alleging fraudulent conveyance of the former marital residence is denied. [*2]

The respondent established her prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law on the first cause of action in action No. 2 alleging fraudulent conveyance of the former marital residence (see Domestic Relations Law § 236 [B] [1] [c]; Debtor and Creditor Law § 276; DeJesus v DeJesus, 90 NY2d 643, 652 [1997]; Dempster v Overview Equities, 4 AD3d 495, 498 [2004]; see generally Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Ctr., 64 NY2d 851, 853 [1985]).

However, in opposition, the appellants raised a triable issue of fact as to whether the former marital residence was the separate property of the appellant Joseph C. Scopelliti (see Raphael v Raphael, 20 AD3d 463, 464 [2005]; Gorelik v Gorelik, 303 AD2d 553 [2003]; Harley v Harley, 157 AD2d 916, 917-918 [1990]). Rivera, J.P., Santucci, Eng and Chambers, JJ., concur.