Cohen v Cohen

Cohen v Cohen 2015 NY Slip Op 09244 Decided on December 16, 2015 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on December 16, 2015 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
MARK C. DILLON, J.P.
L. PRISCILLA HALL
JEFFREY A. COHEN
BETSY BARROS, JJ.
2013-08741
(Index No. 202619/11)

[*1]Ilan Cohen, appellant,

v

Tamara Cohen, respondent.

Jeffrey S. Schecter & Associates, P.C., Garden City, NY, for appellant.

Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara & Wolf, LLP, Lake Success, NY (Michael E. Ratner of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Jeffrey A. Goodstein, J.), dated July 15, 2013. The order, insofar as appealed from, granted the defendant's motion for an award of an interim attorney's fee.

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

Under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in granting the defendant's motion for an award of an interim attorney's fee (see Domestic Relations Law § 237[a]; DeCabrera v Cabrera-Rosete, 70 NY2d 879; Prichep v Prichep, 52 AD3d 61; cf. Abramson v Gavares, 109 AD3d 849, 851).

The plaintiff's remaining contention is without merit.

DILLON, J.P., HALL, COHEN and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court