Budowsky v. Budowsky

This is an application for temporary alimony and counsel fees in a separation action based upon the cruel treatment of the plaintiff by the defendant and his open and flagrant adultery with a succession of paramours, to the humiliation and shame of the plaintiff.

The defendant does not even bother to discuss the latter activity in his papers in opposition and his protestations of innocence of the charge of cruelty are unconvincing.

The possession of substantial means of her own, precludes the granting of a counsel fee to the plaintiff (Lake v. Lake, 194 N. Y. 179) although the husband will be…