40 A.D.2d 624 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1972
Order unanimously reversed, without costs, and matter remitted to Monroe County Family Court for further proceedings in accordance with the following memorandum: On this appeal appellant challenges those parts of an order of Family Court which directed payment of a stated weekly sum for support of his wife and four children and also payment of a variety of expenses of a specified nature but indefinite in amount. In De Gasper v. De Gasper (31 A D 2d 886) we said: “With respect to alimony, we think it generally inadvisable to direct payments of the wife’s expenses of a designated character, which may permit her to increase the award by incurring larger expenses of that character, and we deem it preferable that periodic payments of a specified amount be fixed [cases cited].” In Macris v. Macris (29 A D 2d 528) cited with approval in Be Gasper, it was said: “We have hitherto called attention to the fact that as regards payments for support the more desirable practice