Dunn v. Dunn

—In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rigler, J.), entered July 29,1987, which granted the plaintiff’s motion for a pendente lite award of appraisal and valuation fees in the sum of $2,500.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion, with costs, and the motion is denied.

It was an improvident exercise of the Supreme Court’s discretion to grant the plaintiff’s request for pendente lite appraisal and valuation fees. The purpose of a pendente lite award of expert fees is to enable…