Legal Opinion
Melnitzky v. Melnitzky
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 21, 2001PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Emily Goodman, J.), entered June 30, 1998, which, in this matrimonial action, awarded plaintiff wife attorneys’ fees of $19,400, and judgment, same court (Walter Tolub, J.), entered November 18, 1999, which, after a nonjury trial, inter alia, distributed the marital assets, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Given the disparity between the resources available to each *241of the parties, as demonstrated by the evidence of record, and defendant husband’s insistence on litigating matters in which the merit of his position was dubious at best, the award of…
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