A judge rebuffed an attorney’s fee application submitted more than a month after putting on the record a divorce settlement that said the husband and wife would be responsible for fees and costs.
“It simply cannot be the law that a party can be allowed to believe that all claims against him/her by his/her former spouse have been resolved, only to be subjected to claims by that spouse’s counsel, who represented that all issues were resolved,” Westchester County Supreme Court Justice Paul Marx wrote in L.P. v. R.P., 13941/2011.
