Brooklyn pastor's wife wants church proceeds
BY ANN GIVENS
November 16, 2007

In a case that may be the first of its kind, the wife of a pastor from Baldwin is hoping to win assets from her husband's church in their divorce proceedings, saying he uses the church as his "personal piggy bank" and that any money he makes from it is partly hers.

In a decision published this week, state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Diamond agreed to hear arguments at trial in Mineola about whether Grace Christian Church in Brooklyn should be considered a marital asset, and ordered that it be appraised. It is one of the first times in New York State history - if not the first - that someone going through a divorce has tried to call a religious institution a marital asset, lawyers in the case said. the rest