Youngwall v. Youngwall

193 A.D.3d 907

142 N.Y.S.3d 392 (Mem)

Perry K. YOUNGWALL, respondent,

v.Christine YOUNGWALL, defendant;

Advocate, LLP, nonparty-appellant.

2019–00327

Index No. 201396/17

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.

Submitted—March 22, 2021

April 14, 2021

Advocate, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Jason A. Advocate of counsel), nonparty-appellant pro se.

Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone, LLP, Lake Success, N.Y. (Samuel J. Ferrara and Daniel H. Smith of counsel), for respondent.

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P., LEONARD B. AUSTIN, HECTOR D. LASALLE, ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.

DECISION & ORDER

In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, nonparty Advocate, LLP, appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Steven M. Jaeger, J.), dated November 15, 2018. The order, insofar as appealed from, granted that branch of the defendant's motion which was for an award of interim counsel fees in the sum of $350,000 only to the extent of awarding her such fees in the sum of $35,000.

ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed, with costs to the plaintiff payable by the nonparty-appellant (see CPLR 5511 ).

In this action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant moved, inter alia, for an award of interim counsel fees in the sum of $350,000. The Supreme Court granted that branch of the motion only to the extent of awarding her such fees in the sum of $35,000, payable to the nonparty Advocate, LLP. Advocate, LLP, appeals, asserting that because the defendant was the nonmonied spouse, she was entitled to an award of $350,000.

"[A] person is aggrieved [within the meaning of CPLR 5511 ] when he or she asks for relief but that relief is denied in whole or in part," or "when someone asks for relief against him or her, which the person oppose[d], and the relief is granted in whole or in part" ( Mixon v. TBV, Inc., 76 A.D.3d 144, 156–157, 904 N.Y.S.2d 132 ; see Nugra v. Aramalla, 191 A.D.3d 683, 142 N.Y.S.3d 70 ). Here, while the interim counsel fees awarded to the defendant on her motion were made payable to Advocate, LLC, it did not seek any relief in the Supreme Court that was denied in whole or in part. Accordingly, Advocate, LLC, is not aggrieved by the order, and the appeal must therefore be dismissed (see CPLR 5511 ; Nugra v. Aramalla, 191 A.D.3d 683, 142 N.Y.S.3d 70 ; cf. Day v. Syosset Cent. Sch. Dist., 105 A.D.3d 888, 888–889, 963 N.Y.S.2d 320 ).

CHAMBERS, J.P., AUSTIN, LASALLE and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.