A husband who represented himself in a divorce and “engaged in obstructionist conduct” that led to a 12-day trial—including several days of cross-examining his wife—has been ordered to pay her attorney fees at trial.
“This case highlights the difficulties that arise when one party uses their self-represented status as both a sword and a shield in an attempt to gain undue advantage and behaves in a manner that the court would never tolerate from an attorney,” said Suffolk County Justice H. Patrick Leis (See Profile) in G.T. v. A.T., 31425/2011.
