Legal Opinion
DeJesus v. DeJesus
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided August 16, 1999PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by judgment dated December 21, 1994, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Miller, J.), dated August 31, 1998, which granted the plaintiffs motion for counsel fees to the extent that it awarded her such fees in the sum of $15,000 and denied his cross motion to impose sanctions on the plaintiff.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in awarding counsel fees to the plaintiff (see, Domestic Relations Law § 237 [a]). The award was…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Kennedy v. KennedyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1987
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