Stevens, Owen v. Mila Brown

Summary

The Supreme Court affirmed the Family Court’s denial of the appellant’s motion to reargue or reopen the ancillary proceedings. The motion for reargument was untimely, did not toll the time to appeal the underlying property-division order, and therefore left the Court without jurisdiction to review the merits of that order. The Family Court also acted within its discretion in refusing to reopen the proceedings because the appellant failed to establish excusable neglect.