IN THE MATTER OF PAPASOFF v. COCKRELL


7 A.D.3d 442 (2004)

776 N.Y.S.2d 798

IN THE MATTER OF STEFAN PAPASOFF, Respondent-Appellant, v. ELIZABETH C. COCKRELL, Appellant-Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 25, 2004.


Despite a recent court order denying her permission to do so, respondent mother relocated the parties' child from New York to Colorado. The reasonable legal fees incurred by petitioner father in seeking to undo this unilateral, illegal conduct should have been fully recoverable (see Domestic Relations Law § 237 [b]; Kasal v Kasal, 297 A.D.2d 624 [2002], lv dismissed 99 N.Y.2d 552

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