Goldman v. Goldman

The opinion of the court was delivered by WEFING, J.S.C. (temporarily assigned) The parties to this matter were married in September, 1966; they separated in January, 1987, and were granted a final judgment of divorce on December 17, 1991. Defendant has appealed, and plaintiff has cross-appealed, from certain orders entered by the trial Judge during the divorce proceedings and certain provisions of the equitable distribution ordered in the final judgment of divorce. Two children were born of the marriage, both of whom are now emancipated. When plaintiff filed his complaint for divorce in 1988, the older son was in college and the younger in prep school. The family lived in a large home in South Orange and, during the course of the marriage, plaintiff engaged in several business ventures, one of which was quite successful and the last of which was not. He owned an envelope manufacturing business which he sold in December of 1981. The net proceeds from this sale were slightly in excess of $2,000,000. He invested this sum and supported his family with the income and dividends for the next several years while he investigated other business opportunities.