Zaid v. Zaid

—In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by a judgment entered December 22, 1971, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (O’Brien, J.), dated March 14, 1996, which granted the plaintiffs motion for reargument of a prior application for leave to enter a judgment for alimony arrears and for an award of counsel fees, and, upon reargument, awarded the plaintiff the sum of $83,000 in alimony arrears and $5,000 in counsel fees and denied the defendant’s cross motion for an award of counsel fees.

Ordered that the order is modified by (1) deleting…