IN THE MATTER OF SARFATY v. RECINE


57 A.D.3d 552 (2008)

867 N.Y.S.2d 704

In the Matter of DEBRA SARFATY, Respondent, v. RALPH RECINE, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

December 2, 2008.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

"[T]he award of reasonable counsel fees is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court" (Matter of Grald v Grald, 33 A.D.3d 922, 923 [2006]). Under the facts of this case, the Family Court providently exercised its discretion in awarding the mother a money judgment for an award of an attorney's fee in the sum of $16,770 (see Family Ct Act...

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