Ordered that the order is modified, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, by reducing the award to the mother of an attorney's fee from the sum of $26,805, to the sum of $13,402.50; as so modified, the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The Family Court providently exercised its discretion in determining that the mother was entitled to an award of an attorney's fee (see Family Ct Act § 651 [b]; Domestic Relations Law § 237...
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