Simmons v. Simmons

In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by her brief, from stated portions of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Winslow, J.), entered April 3, 2000, which, inter alia, awarded custody of the parties’ child to the defendant and, in effect, awarded a counsel fee to the defendant in the sum of $40,900.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by deleting the provision thereof which, in effect, awarded a counsel fee to the defendant in the sum of $40,900, and substituting therefor a provision denying a counsel fee to the defendant;…