In Hickey v. Hickey (256 AD2d 383, 681 N.Y.S.2d 601 [1998]), the Appellate Division, Second Department, held that since plaintiff's nursing license was a result, in part, of an educational process which began before the marriage, it could not, in its entirety, be distributed as marital property, and remitted the matter for a hearing to determine the number of credits earned by plaintiff toward the license before the marriage, and to recalculate defendant's share of the license.