Adler v. Hickman
This text of 41 A.D.2d 673 (Adler v. Hickman) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
In a" proceeding pursuant to "article 4 of the .Family. Court Act by-respondent’s former husband to delete-the support provisions of a Mexican judgment which divorced the parties, petitioner appeals from an order' of the Family Court,. Suffolk :County, dated June -12, 1972, which (a) denied "the application and (b) granted respondent’s attorney a counsel fee of $250. Order modified, on the facts, by striking from the. final' sentence of the decretal paragraph thereof the words “direct to the attorney for the respondent”- and substituting therefor -the words “directly to respondent”. As so modified, order [674]*674affirmed, without costs.- It is clear on this record, that the.fee arrangement, entered into between respondent and her attorney was .such; that any award of counsel fees .was'to. be payable; directly to respondent.. Hopkins,'Acting P.: J., Gulotta, Christy Brennan arid.'Benjanun,:"JJ.,.concur..-. " , .
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41 A.D.2d 673, 340 N.Y.S.2d 1010, 1973 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5034, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/adler-v-hickman-nyappdiv-1973.