Gandhi v. Gandhi

In Gandhi v. Gandhi (283 AD2d 782, 724 N.Y.S.2d 541 [2001], the Appellate Division, Third Department, held that some part of the value of plaintiff's CPA license was attributable to activities conducted during the marriage and accordingly constituted marital property, even though plaintiff received considerable formal education in business administration and accounting in India; was qualified as a "chartered" accountant, which is India's equivalent of a CPA license; he worked in that capacity for a number of years; and he obtained his license here after taking only two additional during the evening, while he remained employed as a full-time accountant, because his actual earnings substantially increased following the CPA.