Sassower v. Barone
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Gibbons, J.
The questions presented here for resolution are: (1) whether an award of counsel fees to a plaintiff wife con*82tained in a judgment of divorce may constitute res judicata in a subsequent plenary action for counsel fees against the husband on the theory of necessaries and against the wife on her retainer agreement, where, as part of their agreement to reconcile, the plaintiff wife withdrew her appeal from the judgment where the sole issue for appellate review was the inadequacy of the counsel fees allowed; and (2) whether in a subsequent plenary action for counsel…
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