It was a provident exercise of the court's discretion to direct plaintiff husband to pay $135,000 of the wife's requested attorneys' fees (Domestic Relations Law § 237[b]), given the husband's failure to rebut the statutory presumption that fees shall be awarded to the less monied spouse (id.). Cognizant of the high fees that had accrued in this case, pre-trial, the court did not award the wife 100% of what she sought. We find its determination to award the wife...
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