Motler v. Motler

— Appeal from that part of an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Williams, J.), entered January 13, 1982 in Ulster County, which granted defendant leave to withdraw her counterclaim and ordered a hearing upon defendant’s motion to modify a previous order awarding temporary maintenance. Plaintiff commenced this action for divorce on July 17, 1980, two days before the effective date of part B of section 236 of the Domestic Relations Law. In her answer served August 7, 1980, defendant asserted a counterclaim for divorce on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment or abandonment and for…