71 A.D.2d 911 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1979
—In a matrimonial action, plaintiff appeals from so much of a judgment of separation of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered July 20, 1978, as (1) awarded her allegedly inadequate alimony of $200 per week and child support of $50 per week per child, (2) failed to provide for the payment by defendant of certain medical and dental benefits, as well as life insurance benefits, for plaintiff and the children in her custody, (3) denied her an award of additional counsel fees, and (4) failed to grant her costs and disbursements of the action. Judgment modified, on the law, by adding thereto provisions (1) awarding plaintiff an additional counsel fee in the amount of $2,500, (2) awarding the plaintiff the costs and disbursements of the action as taxed by the County Clerk of Nassau County, and (3) directing the defendant to pay the plaintiff, by check or money order drawn to her order, for all medical and dental services rendered to, and for the hospitalization of, plaintiff and the children in her custody within 20 days after bills therefor and a demand for payment are sent to him, except those bills that have been paid by Blue Cross, Blue Shield and major medical insurance coverage that defendant shall provide. As so modified, judgment affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs to the plaintiff. The award of a temporary counsel fee by Special Term prior to trial was inadequate. The
