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Monique B. STORETTE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ronald F. STORETTE, Defendant-Respondent.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (John E.H. Stackhouse, J.), entered August 22, 2003, dissolving the parties' marriage and incorporating the parties' settlement agreement, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiff's open-court stipulation contained all of the material terms of an enforceable agreement, any unstated amounts being objectively ascertainable, and was properly enforced absent a showing of fraud, duress or mistake sufficient to invalidate a contract (see Hallock v. State of New York, 64 N.Y.2d 224, 230, 485 N.Y.S.2d 510, 474 N.E.2d 1178 [1984] ). It does not avail plaintiff that she refused to sign the subsequent writing embodying the terms of the oral stipulation (see Friedman v. Garey, 8 A.D.3d 129, 779 N.Y.S.2d 44 [2004] ). We have considered and rejected plaintiff's other arguments.
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Decided: October 21, 2004
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.
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