Gleeson v. Gleeson

This is a motion by defendant husband to have the court determine and fix the amount of the support which he is required to pay to the "infant issue of the marriage” and to the plaintiff wife during the pendency of this divorce action. Defendant also seeks on the present motion to have his wife pay her own counsel fees. The motion is opposed by the wife.

In effect, the defendant is making an application for an award of temporary alimony to his wife under section 236 of the Domestic Relations Law which a wife, in ordinary circumstances, would make and join it with a request for counsel fees…