Court affirms $3.2 million award to Pa. woman in contentious divorce case
Updated Mar 05, 2021;
WILLIAMSPORT A federal appeals court has affirmed the $3.2 million jury award to a Shamokin-area woman in a contentious 2004 Northumberland County divorce case.
Appeals were filed by the defendants, Robert and Vanessa Yoncuski, his brother Thomas Yoncuski, and Jeff and Marianne Adams.
Vanessa Yoncuski was sued as Vanessa Long but she later married Robert Yoncuski who was her boyfriend in 2004.
The $3.2 million award that included $1.6 million in punitive damages was proportioned among the defendants.
The case stems from a 2004 divorce between Deitrick and Robert Yoncuski, the removal of a safe from the marital home that Deitrick claimed contained jewelry valued at $4.9 million and $500,000 in cash, and an altercation in the lobby of the Shamokin police station.