Evgeny F. v. Inessa B.

Order, Family Court, New York County (Marva A. Burnett, Ref.), entered on or about March 28, 2014, which, after a hearing, granted respondent mother’s application for an interim award of attorney’s fees in the amount of $525,000 and expert’s fees of $38,000 from petitioner father, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this child custody proceeding, the court providently exercised its discretion in awarding respondent counsel fees and expert fees “ ‘based on the [relative] financial circumstances of the parties and the circumstances of the case as a whole’ ” (Matter of Feng Lucy Luo v Yang,…