[Editor's note: This letter was submitted in response to the column “Shifting Sands: May a Court Properly Order the Sale of the Marital Residence During a Divorce's Pendency?”, which the New York Law Journal published on Jan. 22]

I am writing to correct the misleading impression conveyed by the authors of an article titled “Shifting Sands: May a Court Properly Order the Sale of the Marital Residence During a Divorce's Pendency?” In their article the authors appear to indicate that despite the Court of Appeals decision in Kahn v. Kahn, 43 N.Y.2d 203, 210, 371 N.E.2d 809, 813, 401 N.Y.S.2d 47, 51 (1977), matrimonial courts may direct the sale of the marital residence owned as tenants by the entirety during the pendency of a divorce action.