Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 13, 2001 (Epstein v. Epstein)

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marjory Fields, J.), entered September 19, 2000, inter alia, distributing the parties’ marital property, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The engagement ring given by the husband to the wife was a gift and is therefore her separate property. The marriage turned a gift that was conditional into one that was unconditional.