Case Name: Elizabeth Zazarino, Appellant, v. Louis Zazarino, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1981-07-13
Citations: 83 A.D.2d 575
Docket Number: 
Parties: Elizabeth Zazarino, Appellant, v Louis Zazarino, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 83
Pages: 575–575

Head Matter:
Elizabeth Zazarino, Appellant, v Louis Zazarino, Respondent.

Opinion:
In a matrimonial action in which the plaintiff wife had been granted a judgment of divorce, she appeals, as limited by her brief, from stated portions of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Martin, J.), dated May 4, 1979, which, inter alia, awarded her support of $6,000 per year, child support of $6,000 per year per child, and a counsel fee of $7,500. (Plaintiff has apparently abandoned an appeal from an order of the same court dated May 2, 1979.) Judgment modified, on the law and the facts, (1) by increasing (a) the amount of support awarded to plaintiff in the first decretal paragraph to $17,500 per year, (b) the amount awarded as child support in the second decretal paragraph to $7,500 per year per child, and (c) the counsel fee awarded in the fourteenth decretal paragraph to $15,000 and (2) by deleting the twelfth and thirteenth decretal paragraphs and substituting a provision denying defendant's application for setoffs. As so modified, judgment affirmed, insofar as appealed from, with costs to plaintiff. The support awarded on behalf of plaintiff and the infant children, and the counsel fee awarded, were inadequate to the extent indicated. The setoffs directed were contrary to law (see Romaine v Chauncey, 129 NY 566; Wood v Wood, 60 AD2d 567). Damiani, J.P., Titone, Mangano and Gibbons, JJ., concur.