Opinion
March 16, 2000
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered January 12, 1999, which, inter alia, awarded plaintiff interim counsel fees of $20,000 and temporary maintenance consisting of, inter alia, a $3000 a month payment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Lawrence W. Pollack for plaintiff-respondent.
Michael F. Grossman for defendant-appellant.
Sullivan, P.J., Rosenberger, Mazzarelli, Buckley, Friedman, JJ.
The award represents a measured accommodation between plaintiff's reasonable needs and defendant's financial ability to pay. The record shows that the parties enjoyed a lavish preseparation standard of living and that such was chiefly supported by business entities controlled by defendant. Defendant failed to provide documentation adequate to determine the amount of income generated by those businesses, and also failed to show that the award deprives him of the income and assets necessary to meet his own living expenses (see, Marfilius v. Marfilius, 239 A.D.2d 299).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.