Order modified, on the law, by reducing the fine from $5,000 to $250. As so modified, order affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs to the defendant wife.
While a party seeking to hold an adversary in contempt pursuant to Domestic Relations Law § 245 must ordinarily exhaust his alternative remedies under that section, where, as here, the record demonstrates that the alternative remedies would be ineffectual, the party need not exhaust those remedies (Domestic...
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