Legal Opinion
Matter of Catto v. Howell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 30, 2016No. 2015-10067PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Westchester County (Gail B. Rice, J.), dated October 2, 2015. The order, insofar as appealed from, without a hearing, denied the mother’s motion for an award of an attorney’s fee in the sum of $33,471.32.
Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, with costs, and the mother’s motion for an award of an attorney’s fee in the sum of $33,471.32, is granted.
The parties have three children together. In 2015, after they reached a settlement resolving several petitions, inter alia, to modify an…
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