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IN RE: Richard CUSATO, et al., appellants, v. GLEN AT GREAT KILLS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., respondents-respondents, et al., respondent.
In a proceeding to dissolve a homeowner's association pursuant to Not-for-Profit Corporation Law § 1102, the petitioners appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Solomon, J.), dated May 21, 2004, which denied the petition to dissolve the homeowner's association and dismissed the proceeding.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The petitioners did not demonstrate that competing factions of the homeowner's association engaged in oppressive conduct towards them, or that there was internal dissension among the members of the homeowner's association such that it would be in the best interest of the members for the homeowner's association to be dissolved (see N-PCL 1102[a][2][C],[D]; Matter of Korotun v. Laurel Place Homeowner's Assn., 6 A.D.3d 710, 775 N.Y.S.2d 567; Matter of Luther & Sons Co. v. Geneva Bldrs. & Trade Assn., 52 A.D.2d 737, 381 N.Y.S.2d 934). Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly denied the petition for dissolution. Moreover, since the petitioners failed to establish that dissolution was in order, the Supreme Court was not required to provide the petitioners with alternative relief (see Matter of Farega Realty Corp., 132 A.D.2d 797, 799, 517 N.Y.S.2d 610; cf. Matter of Kemp & Beatley [Gardstein ], 64 N.Y.2d 63, 73-74, 484 N.Y.S.2d 799, 473 N.E.2d 1173).
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Decided: November 14, 2005
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
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