Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Domestic Relations Law § 237 (a) permits the court, in its discretion and as justice requires, to order one matrimonial litigant to pay the legal expenses of the other, so as to carry on the action, having regard to the circumstances of the case and of the respective parties (see, Kret v Kret,
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