Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2015

Lugo v. Torres

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided October 21, 2015 · Rivera, Balkin, Leventhal, Dickerson

132 A.D.3d 824; 17 N.Y.S.3d 887

Cases that cite this one

2 later published cases cite this decision.

Lugo v. Torres (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2019)
Yerushalmi v. Yerushalmi (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2016)

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Opinion

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Susan M. Capeci, J.), entered September 26, 2014. The order, insofar as appealed from, granted that branch of the defendant’s cross motion which was for an award of interim counsel fees in the sum of $40,000.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in granting that branch of the defendant’s cross motion which *825 was for an award of interim counsel fees in the sum of $40,000, in light of the plaintiffs conduct, which resulted in unnecessarily protracting the litigation, and the parties’ financial circumstances (see Domestic Relations Law § 237 [a]; Johnson v Chapin, 12 NY3d 461, 467 [2009]; DeCabrera v Cabrera-Rosete, 70 NY2d 879, 881 [1987]; Vistocco v Jardine, 116 AD3d 842, 844 [2014]; Prichep v Prichep, 52 AD3d 61, 65 [2008]).

Rivera, J.R, Balkin, Leventhal and Dickerson, JJ., concur.

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