Pappas v Pappas
2012 NY Slip Op 00346 [91 AD3d 737]
January 17, 2012
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 29, 2012


Maria Pappas, Respondent,
v
Anthony Pappas, Appellant.

[*1] Anthony Pappas, Astoria, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Kruman & Kruman, P.C., Malverne, N.Y. (Henry E. Kruman of counsel), for respondent.

In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant husband appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Gartenstein, J.H.O.), dated September 13, 2010, which granted the motion of the plaintiff wife for an award of an interim attorney's fee.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in granting the motion of the plaintiff wife for an award of an interim attorney's fee (see Domestic Relations Law § 237 [a]; DeCabrera v Cabrera-Rosete, 70 NY2d 879 [1987]; Prichep v Prichep, 52 AD3d 61 [2008]).

The defendant husband's remaining contentions are without merit. Mastro, A.P.J., Balkin, Dickerson and Chambers, JJ., concur.