Opinion
2001-07013
Submitted June 7, 2002
July 30, 2002.
In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Blydenburgh, J.), entered November 20, 2000, as directed him to pay the defendant maintenance in the sum of $200 per week for 11 years.
Sari M. Friedman, P.C., Garden City, N.Y. (Maryann Zalesak of counsel), for appellant.
Foster Vandenburgh, LLP, Westhampton, N.Y. (Frederic C. Foster and Heather L. Schaub of counsel), for respondent.
Before: CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, J.P., GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, BARRY A. COZIER, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
It is well settled that the amount and duration of maintenance is a matter committed to the trial court's sound discretion (see Kahn v. Kahn, 221 A.D.2d 320, 321; Feldman v. Feldman, 194 A.D.2d 207, 217; Sperling v. Sperling, 165 A.D.2d 338, 341). Under the circumstances presented here, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in fashioning its maintenance award (see Castiglione v. Castiglione, 259 A.D.2d 582, 583; Morrissey v. Morrissey, 259 A.D.2d 472).
O'BRIEN, J.P., KRAUSMAN, SCHMIDT and COZIER, JJ., concur.