Dodson v Dodson
2007 NY Slip Op 09697 [46 AD3d 305]
December 11, 2007
Appellate Division, First Department
As corrected through Wednesday, February 13, 2008


Suzanne Dodson, Respondent,
v
John Dodson,Appellant.

[*1]John Dodson, appellant pro se.

Raoul Felder and Partners, P.C., New York City (Barry Abbott of counsel), forrespondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura Vistacion-Lewis, J.), entered August17, 2006, which awarded plaintiff the principal sum of $50,000 in interim counsel fees,unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The determination of an application for interim attorney fees in a divorce action is committedto the sound discretion of the trial court (Matter of Aronesty v Aronesty, 202 AD2d 240[1994]). The court providently exercised its discretion in rendering this award, whichappropriately redresses the parties' economic disparity, and which is subject to reexamination attrial (see Jorgensen v Jorgensen, 86 AD2d 861 [1982]). We have considered theremainder of defendant's argument and find it unavailing. Concur—Marlow, J.P., Nardelli,Williams and McGuire, JJ.


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