Eldridge v. Eldridge

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York (Jack Turret, J.), entered April 10, 1987, which, inter alia, granted a divorce, distributed the parties’ property, and directed defendant husband to pay directly to plaintiff wife’s attorney the sum of $2,500 as counsel fees, is modified, on the law and the facts, to delete the provision for payment of counsel fees, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Although the parties’ financial circumstances were found not to warrant an award of counsel fees, the husband was directed to pay $2,500 directly to the wife’s attorney because, in the opinion of the…