Colmand v. Dailey

After a hotly contested trial, covering portions of approximately nine days of actual testimony, spanning a period of about 10 months, and following a finding of paternity, whose ramifications ¡were such as to impel the court to write a 21-page opinion (Matter of Colmand v. Dailey, 79 Misc 2d 1005), the court on December 3, 1974, immediately following the completion of the support and counsel fee portion of the controversy, rendered a decision off the bench granting petitioner $40 per week for the support of the child and $1,000 counsel fee plus disbursements of $64 ¡making a total of $1,064,…