Case Name: In the Matter of Charles McIvor Kotsonis, Respondent, v. Kalliopi Notias, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2010-11-03
Citations: 78 A.D.3d 702
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Charles McIvor Kotsonis, Respondent, v Kalliopi Notias, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 78
Pages: 702–703

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Charles McIvor Kotsonis, Respondent, v Kalliopi Notias, Appellant.
[909 NYS2d 923]

Opinion:
In related custody and visitation proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Morgenstern, J), dated November 18, 2009, as, without a hearing, granted the father's application for an award of interim counsel fees to the extent of awarding the father the sum of $2,500 in interim counsel fees.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs to the respondent.
The Supreme Court awarded the father the sum of $2,500 in interim counsel fees upon his application for counsel fees in the sum of $8,000. The Supreme Court properly awarded the father counsel fees, without a hearing, incurred as a result of the mother's failure to abide by prior court orders (see Domestic Relations Law § 237 [b]; Johnson v Chapin, 12 NY3d 461, 467 [2009]; DeSouza-Brown v Brown, 71 AD3d 946, 947 [2010]; Powers v Wilson, 56 AD3d 639, 640 [2008]; Rodman v Friedman, 33 AD3d 400, 400-401 [2006]; Bengard v Bengard, 5 AD3d 340, 341 [2004]; cf. Domestic Relations Law § 237 [c]; Yeager v Yeager, 38 AD3d 534, 535 [2007]). Mastro, J.P., Fisher, Leventhal and Belen, JJ., concur.