Ajar v. Ajar

—In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by judgment entered September 1, 1989, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Saladino, J.) entered July 31, 1991, which granted the intervenor’s motion to establish a charging lien, awarded him the total amount of $29,715.90, directed the defendant and the attorney-escrowee of the funds to pay them over to the intervenor, and awarded counsel fees of $21,802 to the intervenor in connection with bringing the motion to establish the lien.

Ordered that the order is modified, on the law, by deleting the…