O'Shea v. O'Shea

—In a matrimonial action in *525which the parties were divorced by judgment entered January 3, 1996, which, in effect, severed the issue of the amount of counsel fees to be awarded to the plaintiff former wife and directed a hearing on that issue, the defendant former husband appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (McCabe, J.), entered February 5, 1997, which, after a hearing (Kingston, J.), is in favor of the plaintiff and against him in the sum of $149,923 for counsel fees.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reducing the counsel fees awarded to the…