AMANTE v. AMANTE

2009-10432.

78 A.D.3d 622 (2010)

909 N.Y.S.2d 666

AMY AMANTE, Appellant, v. ROBERT AMANTE, Respondent.

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

Decided November 3, 2010.


Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, with costs, and the wife's motion for an award of interim counsel fees in the sum of $75,000 is granted.

"An award of interim counsel fees ensures that the nonmonied spouse will be able to litigate the action, and do so on equal footing with the monied spouse" (Prichep v Prichep, 52 A.D.3d 61, 65 [2008]). Courts...

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