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Losses tied to Madoff won’t alter divorce pact

By Peter Lattman

 |  New York Times  

  April 04, 2012

New York’s highest court ruled Tuesday that a man who had lost his settlement proceeds in Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme would not get a do-over on his divorce agreement. The unanimous decision from the New York Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that had allowed Steven Simkin, a real estate lawyer at a powerful Manhattan firm, to sue his ex-wife, Laura Blank, also a lawyer, to alter the terms of their divorce pact.

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