Recently a New York divorce Judge ruled that a bickering New York couple may have a dividing wall constructed inside their home as part of an acrimonious divorce. Chana and Simon Taub, both 57, have endured two years of divorce negotiations, but neither is prepared to give up their Brooklyn home. Both feel they are entitled to live in the home and neither are willing to give it up. Despite owning another home two blocks away. Eventually, after negotiations led nowhere, a New York Judge ordered that the partition wall be built inside the house.
The wall divides the ground floor of the house, and keeps husband and wife penned into separate sections on different floors.
One door linking the rival sections of the house is barricaded shut to prevent any accidental contact between the pair.
While this situation is extremely unusual it appears to work, for the time being, for this particular couple. In Iowa a couple may request that real property, usually farm land or other undeveloped parcels of land, to be partitioned as part of a divorce settlement; however, I have yet to find any Iowa authority supporting the New York Judge's decision.
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Jennifer Jaskolka-Brown, an Iowa attorney located at 6601 Westown Parkway, Suite 200, West Des Moines, Iowa, (515) 247-4705, practices in general civil litigation with an emphasis in Iowa Family Law issues. She provides guidance in family law matters from divorce, paternity, disestablishment of paternity to adoption,and guardianships. She also provides representation in a wide-variety of civil litigation issues.
