Legal Opinion
McLeod v. McLeod
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 22, 2008PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the wife appeals, as limited by her brief, from stated portions of an order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Berliner, J.), dated June 7, 2007, which, inter alia, denied those branches of her motion which were for pendente lite maintenance and an award of an attorney’s fee.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The purpose of a pendente lite award is to “tide over the more needy party, not to determine the correct ultimate distribution” (Iannone v Iannone, 31 AD3d 713, 714 [2006] [internal quotation marks…
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