179 A.D.2d 1064 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1992
We also reject defendant’s contention that Supreme Court abused its discretion in directing him to pay plaintiff’s attorney’s fees in the amount of $2000. In light of the parties’ financial circumstances, the fee award, which represented approximately one-half of the fee requested, was just (see, Domestic Relations Law § 237 [b]; see also, DeCabrera v Cabrera-Rosete, 70 NY2d 879, 881; O’Brien v O’Brien, 66 NY2d 576, 590; Rados v Rados, 133 AD2d 536). (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Erie County, Francis, J. — Terminate Maintenance.) Present — Denman, P. J., Callahan, Green, Lawton and Davis, JJ.