Colaitis v. Colaitis

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Colaitis v. Colaitis

256 A.D.2d 300, 681 N.Y.S.2d 760, 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 13170

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided December 7, 1998·Published

Opinion

—In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Lifson, J.), dated September 11, 1997, as awarded the defendant an attorney’s fee in the sum of $15,000.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in requiring the plaintiff to pay one-half of the defendant’s attorney’s fee (see, Domestic Relations Law § 237; DeCabrera v Cabrera-Rosete, 70 NY2d 879; Rice v Rice, 222 AD2d 493; Reehill v Reehill, 181 AD2d 725).

The plaintiffs remaining contention is without merit. Rosenblatt, J. P., Ritter, Copertino and McGinity, JJ., concur.

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—In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Lifson, J.), dated September 11, 1997, as awarded the defendant an attorney’s fee in the sum of $15,000.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in requiring the plaintiff to pay one-half of the defendant’s attorney’s fee (see, Domestic Relations Law § 237; DeCabrera v Cabrera-Rosete, 70 NY2d 879; Rice v Rice, 222 AD2d 493; Reehill v Reehill, 181 AD2d 725).

The plaintiffs remaining contention is without merit. Rosenblatt, J. P., Ritter, Copertino and McGinity, JJ., concur.

Colaitis v. Colaitis, 256 A.D.2d 300, 681 N.Y.S.2d 760, 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 13170 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1998).

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