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NEW YORK, Feb 7, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The wife of millionaire sweater manufacturer Simon Taub is appealing a divorce judge's order that they build a wall to split their New York mansion.
Chana Taub has appealed Judge Sarah Krauss' ruling that would divide the home like the 1989 film "War of the Roses."
"I don't wish this on anybody," Chana Taub told The New York Daily News. "I hope God will help, and somebody will straighten out this whole thing."
The judge last August granted the wife an order of protection against her husband, who owns TechKnits Inc.
However, the judge also ruled a wall should split the manse because of the husband's heart condition even though he owns the building next door.
"I don't think it's an extraordinary measure under these circumstances," the husband's lawyer, Frank Snitow, told the newspaper.
"No litigant should have to endure this kind of abuse," said the wife's attorney, Susan Settenbrino. "There should be recourse for such orders without having to spend $200,000 (on the appeal)."
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