CourtListener 4567116•Dilanian v. Dilanian
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17-P-173 Appeals Court
DAVID M. DILANIAN vs. TRAUTE L. DILANIAN.
No. 17-P-173.
Norfolk. July 12, 2018. - November 21, 2018.
Present: Blake, Sacks, & Ditkoff, JJ.
Divorce and Separation, Division of property, Pension benefits,
Alimony, Relief from judgment. Corporation, Valuation.
Value.
Complaint for divorce filed in the Norfolk Division of the
Probate and Family Court Department on January 11, 2011.
The case was heard by Jennifer M.R. Ulwick, J., and motions
for reconsideration and for postjudgment relief or amendment of
the final judgment were heard by her.
Matthew Bove for the husband.
L. Richard LeClair, III, for the wife.
DITKOFF, J. David M. Dilanian (husband) appeals from the
amended judgment of divorce nisi entered by a Probate and Family
Court judge and the subsequent denials of his postjudgment
motions. The most significant issue revolves around a pension
plan that the judge found belonged entirely to the husband but
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that the husband alleges belonged partially to his now-deceased
father and thus now belongs partially to his sister. We discern
no clear error in the judge's factual findings, and we conclude
that the sister's interests are not impaired by the judgment
transferring sixty per cent of the pension plan to Traute L.
Dilanian (wife), as the remaining portion is more than
sufficient to satisfy any claim by the sister. Further
discerning no clear error in the judge's findings regarding the
value of the husband's business and the husband's income, and
concluding that the judge acted within her discretion in denying
the husband's motion for relief under Mass. R. Dom. Rel. P.
60 (b), we affirm.
1. Background. The husband and wife were married in 1981,
had three children together, and lived a comfortable upper-
middle class lifestyle. During their thirty-one year marriage,
the wife was the homemaker while the husband was self-employed,
running a successful business. The marriage began to break down
in 2005, and the husband filed for divorce in January 2011,
after five years of counseling and a three-month trial
separation. Their children were all of adult age and
emancipated, and the parties were able to resolve amicably the
disposition of the marital home. Much of the trial concerned
the value of the husband's business and the husband's share in
various assets and an inheritance from his father.
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a. M.E. Dilanian Co., Inc. Since 1984, the husband has
worked at M.E. Dilanian Co., Inc. (M.E. Dilanian), a family-
controlled company that purchases food products from wholesalers
and then sells the products to supermarkets. The husband and
his father operated the company as coowners until approximately
1998 or 1999, when the husband became the sole stockholder in
the company. The husband's father, however, continued to work
at the company until his death in March 2011.
By the time of the divorce proceedings, therefore, the
husband was the sole owner of the business with control over
both the company accounts and his own compensation. To avoid
double taxation on corporate income,1 the husband took a base
salary and then paid himself a bonus out of the year-end
profits. Accordingly, he would generally pay out year-end
bonuses so that the company would be left with only $5,000 to
$10,000 of retained earnings for the year. The husband's
financial statement reported that his net income increased from
$204,500 in 2008 to $388,000 in 2010. Once the divorce
proceedings began, the husband decreased his pay to $217,000 in
2011 and $215,000 in 2012. At the same time, and contrary to
prior practice, the amount of cash left in M.E. Dilanian
1 The company is a C corporation and, therefore, is subject
to the corporate income tax on any profits retained.
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accounts increased by over $294,000 from July 2011 to June 2012.
The husband also routinely received additional compensation from
M.E. Dilanian in the form of interest payments, pension
contributions, lease payments for an automobile, and expense
reimbursements.
b. M.E. Dilanian retirement plans. M.E. Dilanian
established a defined contribution retirement plan in 1989 and a
defined benefit plan at some point between 2002 and 2011. The
husband testified that he and his father were the only
participants in both plans.
Under the defined contribution plan, the company was
supposed to contribute twenty-five per cent of a participating
employee's income each year to the plan. At some point,
however, the company ceased contributing to the plan. As a
defined contribution plan, the money contributed toward each
participant's retirement belonged to that participant, assuming
he met the vesting requirements, and was to be paid out
accordingly upon retirement or death. The plan set the
retirement age at sixty-five years of age.2 The husband and his
father were the only trustees of the plan until the father's
death, when the husband became the sole trustee.
2 The husband's father was approximately sixty-five years
old when the defined contribution plan was established.
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Upon the father's death on March 1, 2011, the husband
allocated $663,961 of the defined contribution plan's $1,416,769
balance to his father's estate. The husband allocated $46,690
of the defined benefit plan's balance to his father's estate.
With one exception, however, the husband failed to produce any
documents to substantiate contributions made by M.E. Dilanian to
the defined contribution plan on the father's behalf that
predate the beginning of divorce proceedings. Similarly,
although the husband testified that the defined benefit plan was
created in or around 2002, the only documents he produced
showing the establishment of a defined benefit plan reflect that
it was established after the father's death.
The husband did produce Federal tax forms 5500-EZ that
predated the divorce proceedings. These documents, however,
vary. They state that the defined contribution plan had one
participant in 2007; two in 2008; three in 2009; three at the
beginning of 2010, but only one at the year's end; and two
participants in 2011.
c. Inheritance. The husband's father's estate was
administered by the husband and his sister as joint executors.
On its estate tax returns, the estate reported assets of
$4,165,798. That amount included $710,651 from the M.E.
Dilanian pension plans. The estate also included $847,415
previously placed in the Dilanian Family IRA Spray Trust (spray
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trust).3 There is no dispute that the balance of the estate,
consisting of cash, a brokerage account, and the assets of two
other trusts, will be divided evenly between the husband and his
sister.
By its terms, the spray trust divides its assets among the
children of the husband and his sister. Absent the untimely
demise of all of the husband's and his sister's descendants, the
trust assets would not be distributed to the husband. Even
though the husband was one of the trustees of the spray trust,
he testified at trial (in what he later asserted was a mistake)
that he and his sister were the only beneficiaries of the
father's estate and that he would inherit half of the $4 million
estate. His testimony, therefore, assigned to himself the
approximately $423,700 that will instead go to his children.
d. Findings and rulings. At trial, the husband valued
M.E. Dilanian at $200,000. The judge ultimately credited this
valuation, except that she found that the business value of M.E.
Dilanian also includes the value of a $150,000 note payable to
3 Apparently because the beneficiaries of the trust did not
have an "immediate and unrestricted right to possess" the trust
assets, it remained in the father's estate for estate tax
purposes. See Wooley v. United States, 736 F. Supp. 1506, 1509
(S.D. Ind. 1990).
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the husband for a personal loan made to the company.4
Accordingly, the judge valued the company at $350,000. The
judge also found that the company held cash assets with a value
of $634,061.06.5 The judge awarded ownership of the company to
the husband.
Regarding the husband's income, the judge found that the
husband had artificially lowered his income. The judge found
that the husband's real annual income was approximately
$325,000. The judge found that the wife's imputed annual income
was $20,000. The judge then imposed an alimony obligation of
$2,000 per week until the husband reaches full retirement age
"as defined in G. L. c. 208, § 48."
The judge found that the husband was the only participant
in both the defined contribution and the defined benefit plans.6
Noting that the father would have been seventy-eight years old
when the defined benefit plan was purportedly created and that
the records produced by the husband showed that the plan was
executed after the father's death, the judge did not credit the
4 Although the judge noted that the husband listed this note
as a personal asset, there is no indication that the judge
double counted the $150,000.
5 The wife makes no claim on appeal that the judge
undervalued the company.
6 The husband raises no challenge on appeal to the judge's
ruling regarding the defined benefit plan.
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husband's claim that the father was a participant in the defined
benefit plan. Similarly, based primarily on the husband's
failure to produce documents substantiating his claims "despite
receiving request for production, trial subpoenas and a court
order," the judge did not credit the husband's testimony that
the father was a participant in the defined contribution plan.
The judge considered the husband's entitlement to half of
his father's estate as a factor supporting his "optimistic
outlook of financial stability." The judge, however, found that
the inherited assets "were received late in the marriage and
were not woven into the fabric of the marriage" and thus should
remain with the husband. She ordered the husband to transfer
sixty per cent of both the defined contribution plan and the
defined benefit plan to the wife.7 She ordered the husband to
transfer the full amount of two smaller retirement plans to the
wife, gave the husband the right to buy out the wife's interest
in the marital home and another piece of real estate, divided
the joint bank accounts equally, and ordered the husband to pay
the wife $150,000. Shortly thereafter, the judge issued an
amended judgment of divorce nisi, changing only the time at
which alimony commenced. The husband filed a timely appeal.
7 At the end of 2012, the defined contribution plan had a
value of $1,573,389.67, and the defined benefit plan had a value
of $494,414.05.
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2. Defined contribution plan and adjudication of third-
party rights. Judges are granted "a broad degree of discretion
in assigning 'to either husband or wife all or any part of the
estate of the other, including . . . retirement benefits, . . .
pension, profit-sharing, annuity, [and] deferred compensation.'"
Adams v. Adams, 459 Mass. 361, 372–373 (2011), quoting G. L.
c. 208, § 34. Although we review the propriety of the legal
standards applied by the judge, the discretionary determinations
of property division "will not be reversed unless plainly wrong
and excessive." Hassey v. Hassey, 85 Mass. App. Ct. 518, 524
(2014).
On appeal, the husband argues that M.E. Dilanian's defined
contribution plan belonged partially to his now-deceased father
and thus now belongs partially to his sister. It is undisputed
that the husband was a participant in and beneficiary of the
defined contribution plan. At trial, the husband supported his
contention that he was not the sole participant with his own
testimony, documents created after the divorce proceedings
began, and the inconclusive tax forms he disclosed. The husband
produced no evidence tracking the individual contributions for
any participant. The husband testified that this information
was available to him as the plan's trustee, but he was either
unable or unwilling to submit it to the court as evidence at
trial. As the judge could infer that the documentation either
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contradicted the husband's assertions or did not exist at all,
the judge could reasonably disbelieve the husband's testimony
and the documentation created after the divorce proceedings
began. See Prenaveau v. Prenaveau, 81 Mass. App. Ct. 479, 496
(2012), quoting Johnston v. Johnston, 38 Mass. App. Ct. 531, 536
(1995) (trial judge's credibility findings upheld "except on the
most compelling of showings").
This lack of evidence was exacerbated by the defined
contribution plan's tax forms showing anywhere from one to three
plan participants between 2007 and 2011. Even if the judge
credited the husband's expert that Form 5500-EZ, Annual Return
of One-Participant (Owners and Their Spouses) Retirement Plan,
may be properly filed when one of the participants is the
nonowner father of the owner, there was no testimony to account
for the shifting number of participants from year to year. Cf.
Vedensky v. Vedensky, 86 Mass. App. Ct. 768, 774 (2014) ("The
judge was not required to accept the opinion of the experts, and
was entitled to credit all, part, or none of their testimony").
It is true that, since the divorce filing and the husband's
father's death, the husband has consistently taken the position
that his father was a participant in the defined contribution
plan, and the husband has created documents reflecting this
position. The fact, however, that no such documents can be
produced that predate the divorce filing is strong evidence upon
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which the judge could reasonably conclude that the division of
the defined contribution plan was a postdivorce filing
invention. Accordingly, the judge was not required to credit
the allocation of $663,961 to the father's estate, nor was it
clearly erroneous to find the husband was the sole participant
and beneficiary of the plan. See Caveney v. Caveney, 81 Mass.
App. Ct. 102, 115 (2012) (discerning no error where trial judge
did not credit husband's testimony in light of inconsistent
evidence).
Nonetheless, because the judge ordered the husband to
transfer sixty per cent of the defined contribution plan to the
wife, we must consider the asserted interest of the husband's
sister in that defined contribution plan. In Amrhein v.
Amrhein, 29 Mass. App. Ct. 336 (1990), we considered a judicial
order that the husband execute a mortgage for the benefit of the
wife on property he claimed was held in trust for the benefit of
his children. Id. at 339-340. Although the judge had "ample
reason to doubt the reality of the trust" and find that the
property was held by the husband himself, id. at 338,8 we
concluded that such an order could not be entered without
8 In Amrhein, the transfer of the property from the husband
individually to the trust was likely fraudulent and used "as a
vehicle to conceal the husband's income and assets." 29 Mass.
App. Ct. at 338.
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joining the children and the husband in his capacity as trustee
of the purported trust. Id. at 340-341. As we explained, the
judge's finding that the husband was the owner was binding upon
him but could not be allowed to "adversely affect the interests
of third persons who are not bound by that finding" without
their being heard by being brought into the action. Id. at 340.
Here, however, contrary to the husband's argument, the
judge's order will not adversely affect the interests of third
persons. The plan documents establish that the beneficiaries of
any portion of the defined contribution plan that belonged to
the husband's father are the husband and his sister, in equal
shares. The sister, as coexecutor of the estate, signed an
estate tax return taking the position that $663,961 of the plan
belonged to the father. Accordingly, half of that amount
($331,981) could be claimed by the sister. Once sixty per cent
of the plan is transferred to the wife, the remaining amount
will be well in excess of the amount the sister claimed in the
estate tax return and appears able to claim.9
9 The husband's retained forty per cent of the defined
contribution plan was $629,355.87 (as valued at the end of
2012). Even if the claimed share of the father is given a
prorated share of the increase in value between the father's
death and the end of 2012, the sister's share would appear to be
no more than $369,000.
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Because the portion of the plan remaining with the husband
is adequate to satisfy any claim by the sister, the judge's
allocation will not impair her interests. If the sister claims
a share of the plan, she may pursue it against the husband and
file a suit, if necessary. That this theoretically may result
in the husband's receiving less than forty per cent of the plan
is of no moment. "A finding by the judge in these circumstances
that a particular asset is owned by a party individually . . .
is binding on the parties to the action but not on persons not
served." Amrhein, 29 Mass. App. Ct. at 339. Having failed to
substantiate his position that he was not the sole participant
in the plan, the husband is bound, for purposes of this divorce
action, by the judge's findings.
3. Business valuation. The valuation of a business
interest for purposes of the division of marital assets is a
question of fact. Adams, 459 Mass. at 380. We review the trial
judge's findings for clear error. Caveney, 81 Mass. App. Ct. at
109.
Contrary to the husband's assertions, the trial judge did
not value M.E. Dilanian based on the cash held in company
accounts at the time of trial. The judge expressly found M.E.
Dilanian "has a business value of $350,000" based on the
husband's valuation of $200,000, plus the $150,000 note payable
to him by the company. That the judge also mentioned that the
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company possessed "cash held with a value of $634,061.06" (after
subtracting the $150,000 note payable to the husband) and that
"the company maintains over $500,000 in the business accounts"
does not negate the judge's specific finding that the company
has a value of $350,000.10
We discern no clear error in this valuation. The judge was
entitled to credit the husband's valuation of his own company.
See Prenaveau, 81 Mass. App. Ct. at 496. Considering that the
husband was the sole owner of the company, there is nothing
unreasonable in disregarding the $150,000 note payable to the
husband and considering that property part of the value of the
company. Cf. Adams, 459 Mass. at 373 (properly assigning "the
present value of a spouse's interest in a [business] to the
divisible marital estate").11
4. Alimony. As with the division of marital property,
"[a] judge has broad discretion when awarding alimony." Zaleski
v. Zaleski, 469 Mass. 230, 235 (2014). Accord Ludwig v. Lamee-
10The amount of cash held by M.E. Dilanian was relevant to
the wife's claim that the husband was purposefully leaving cash
and income in the company to reduce his income artificially.
11The husband's argument that the judge erred in finding
that M.E. Dilanian had any value at all "due to its speculative
nature" fails, as the husband testified that the value of the
company was $200,000, and, as we have noted, the judge was
entitled to credit his testimony. See Prenaveau, 81 Mass. App.
Ct. at 496.
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Ludwig, 91 Mass. App. Ct. 36, 40 (2017) (within judge's
discretion to consider employee spouse's stock options "as a
source of income in the alimony calculation"). In that regard,
"[a] judgment will not be disturbed on appeal unless 'plainly
wrong and excessive.'" Zaleski, supra at 236, quoting Heins v.
Ledis, 422 Mass. 477, 481 (1996).
In this case, the husband reported that his gross income
increased in the years prior to the divorce from $204,500 in
2008 to $388,000 in 2010 but then decreased to $217,000 in 2011
and $215,000 in 2012. He neglected, however, to include
additional compensation received from the company for those
years in the form of interest and expense reimbursements. The
judge properly considered all of the husband's income from the
company, finding a total compensation of approximately $475,000
in 2011 and $266,000 in 2012. See Hassey, 85 Mass. App. Ct. at
525 (alimony determined from parties' gross income).
Moreover, the husband was the sole owner of M.E. Dilanian,
his compensation was tied to the profitability of the company,
and the husband paid himself out of company accounts based on
its year-end earnings. Although "[a] corporation may reasonably
choose to retain income" to maintain its current business or
expand its operations, Halpern v. Rabb, 75 Mass. App. Ct. 331,
337 (2009), the judge was not required to credit the husband's
reasons for the increase of over $294,000 held in company
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accounts at year end from 2011 to 2012. Holding excess cash in
the company accounts, in addition, was contrary to the husband's
prior practice of maintaining only $5,000 to $10,000 in retained
earnings annually to avoid double taxation on corporate income.
In sum, contrary to the husband's assertion, the evidence
supported the finding that the husband's reported income was
increasing until he filed for divorce in 2011, and that the
husband intentionally reduced his own salary while amassing
corporate earnings usually directed toward his personal income.
Given this evidence and the husband's furtive financial
disclosures, including his failure to prepare a 2012 financial
statement for M.E. Dilanian, the trial judge could reasonably
conclude the husband artificially reduced his income to alter
his financial condition in light of the impending divorce. See
Caveney, 81 Mass. App. Ct. at 114 (discerning no error in
finding husband's representations of business financials
"clearly false" in light of incomplete and contradictory
evidence). Cf. J.S. v. C.C., 454 Mass. 652, 663 (2009)
("corporate structures should not be used to shield available
income that could and should serve as available sources" of
marital support). Specifically, at the end of the 2012 fiscal
year, the account used to pay the husband's salary held an extra
$76,000, and the judge could reasonably impute those retained
earnings to the husband as income for purposes of calculating
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alimony. See id. at 664 ("the judge should weigh affirmative
evidence of an attempt to shield income by means of retained
earnings[;] . . . [i]n that regard, the corporation's history of
retained earnings and distributions may be relevant"). Accord
Halpern, 75 Mass. App. Ct. at 337. Including the excess $76,000
with the husband's $266,180 in gross income in 2012, it was "not
'plainly wrong'" to find the husband's income was closer to
$325,000 than $200,000. Vedensky, 86 Mass. App. Ct. at 775,
quoting Redding v. Redding, 398 Mass. 102, 107 (1986). There
was no error, see Caveney, supra at 115, nor a basis to merit
reconsideration.
5. Inheritance. Within a year of the amended judgment of
divorce nisi, the husband filed a motion for relief from
judgment under Mass. R. Dom. Rel. P. 60 (b) (1) and 60 (b) (6).12
The motion stated that "[r]ecently it was discovered" that the
husband was not a beneficiary of the spray trust. At the
hearing, when asked why the husband had misunderstood the
provisions of the spray trust, his counsel stated that the
husband told him that he had been relying on the advice of the
attorney handling the estate. No affidavit, testimony, or other
12Although the husband styled the motion as being made
pursuant to the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure, this
case is governed by the Massachusetts Rules of Domestic
Relations Procedure. See Mass. R. Dom. Rel. P. 1.
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evidence was presented to substantiate this assertion. The
judge denied the motion, and the husband has appealed from that
denial as well.
Under Mass. R. Dom. Rel. P. 60 (b) (1), "upon such terms as
are just, the court may relieve a party . . . from a final
judgment, order, or proceeding for . . . mistake, inadvertence,
surprise, or excusable neglect," provided the motion is "made
within a reasonable time" and within one year.13 In deciding a
rule 60 (b) (1) motion, whether under Mass. R. Civ. P.
60 (b) (1), 365 Mass. 828 (1974), or Mass. R. Dom. Rel. P.
60 (b) (1), a judge considers several factors, including
"(1) whether the offending party has acted promptly after entry
of judgment to assert his claim for relief therefrom;
(2) whether there is a showing either by way of affidavit, or
otherwise apparent on the record, that the claim sought to be
revived has merit; (3) whether the neglectful conduct occurs
before trial, as opposed to during, or after the trial;
(4) whether the neglect was the product of a consciously chosen
course of conduct on the part of counsel; (5) whether prejudice
has resulted to the other party; and (6) whether the error is
chargeable to the party's legal representative, rather than to
13The husband's motion invoked both rule 60 (b) (1) and
60 (b) (6), but he raises only rule 60 (b) (1) on appeal.
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the party himself; for 'the courts have been reluctant to
attribute to the parties the errors of their legal
representatives.'" Berube v. McKesson Wine & Spirits Co., 7
Mass. App. Ct. 426, 430-431 (1979), quoting Barber v.
Tuberville, 218 F.2d 34, 36 (D.C. Cir. 1954). See Sahin v.
Sahin, 435 Mass. 396, 398 n.4 (2001) (proper to apply standards
applicable to Mass. R. Civ. P. 60 to motions under Mass. R. Dom.
Rel. P. 60; text of two rules is identical). "Relief is not
justified under rule 60(b)(1) for 'any garden-variety
oversight.'" Freitas v. Freitas, 26 Mass. App. Ct. 196, 197 n.2
(1988), quoting Goldstein v. Barron, 382 Mass. 181, 186 (1980).
"A motion for relief under rule 60(b) is directed to the
sound discretion of the motion judge, and we review the judge's
ruling for abuse of discretion." Ulin v. Polansky, 83 Mass.
App. Ct. 303, 308 (2013), quoting Nortek, Inc. v. Liberty Mut.
Ins. Co., 65 Mass. App. Ct. 764, 775 (2006). Accord Dalessio v.
Dalessio, 409 Mass. 821, 833 (1991). A judge has "considerable
discretion in ruling on [a] motion for relief under rule
60 (b) (1)." Hermanson v. Szafarowicz, 457 Mass. 39, 47 (2010).
We discern no abuse of discretion here.
"A party's estate for purposes of equitable division under
G. L. c. 208, § 34, 'includes all property to which a party
holds title, however acquired.'" Pfannenstiehl v.
Pfannenstiehl, 475 Mass. 105, 110 (2016), quoting Williams v.
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Massa, 431 Mass. 619, 625 (2000). The trial judge, therefore,
properly considered the husband's substantial inheritance in
determining the division of marital assets in this case.14 See
Adams, 459 Mass. at 378 (§ 34 vests judge with discretion to
consider acquisition of assets by parties' respective estates in
dividing marital property). Accord E.H. v. S.H., 59 Mass. App.
Ct. 593, 597 n.7 (2003), quoting Davidson v. Davidson, 19 Mass.
App. Ct. 364, 374–375 (1985) (future inheritance "may be
considered 'under the § 34 criterion of "opportunity of each for
future acquisition of capital assets and income"' in determining
what disposition to make of the property which is subject to
division").
That the husband's actual inheritance is lower than that
found by the judge is beyond serious dispute. Nonetheless, the
error was caused by the husband's own testimony. The husband
was a trustee and executor of his father's estate and a trustee
of the spray trust. He had a legal duty to be aware of the
obligations and expectancies of both entities, and it was
reasonable for the judge to credit without further investigation
the husband's testimony that he and his sister were the sole
14The wife conceded she was not entitled to share in the
father's estate, and she was not awarded any part of the
husband's inheritance in the divorce judgment. Cf. Davidson v.
Davidson, 19 Mass. App. Ct. 364, 374-375 (1985) (error to divide
husband's after-acquired property in § 34 action, but potential
inheritance may be considered in dividing marital property).
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beneficiaries of the estate he was charged with administering.
Indeed, the husband personally signed the estate tax forms
assigning the spray trust $847,415 prior to trial and should
have known his share of the inheritance would accordingly be
reduced by the time he testified. Moreover, the amount of the
inheritance was not integral to the judge's division of the
marital estate but rather went to supporting the judge's finding
that the husband "has a far more optimistic outlook of financial
stability" than the wife, a finding that holds even with the
smaller inheritance. The judge could reasonably attribute the
omission of that fact in the husband's testimony to the
husband's own negligence, and find that the exact amount of the
inheritance was not particularly important to the division of
assets. Under such circumstances, the trial judge acted within
her discretion in denying the husband relief.
6. Conclusion. The amended judgment of divorce nisi is
affirmed, as are the orders denying the husband's postjudgment
motions.
So ordered.
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