DECISION & ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in granting that branch of the wife's motion which was for an award of an interim counsel fee in the sum of $25,000 in light of the disparity in the parties' relative financial positions and the husband's conduct, which resulted in unnecessary motion practice (see Meltzer v Meltzer,
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