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PLAINTIFF AND HIS ATTORNEY EACH SANCTIONED $5000 FOR FRIVOLOUS ACTION AND APPEAL (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department imposed $5000 sanctions (each) upon plaintiff and his attorney in this matrimonial matter. The underlying action attacking a stipulation (which had already been appealed) and the appeal were deemed frivolous:

We grant defendant's request that we impose sanctions upon plaintiff and his counsel (22 NYCRR 130-1.1[a]). The action below, and the appeal before us now, both of which counsel prosecuted, are plainly without merit (22 NYCRR 130-1.1[c][1]). Moreover, this appeal constitutes plaintiff's third unsuccessful challenge in this Court to the stipulation of settlement, which the parties entered into in 2012 … . In our 2016 decision and order, which affirmed, inter alia, an award of counsel fees to defendant, we held that the award was proper based in part on plaintiff's “multiple, unsuccessful attempts to void or rescind the support provisions contained in the stipulation” … . Where a matrimonial litigant engages in a “relentless campaign to prolong th[e] litigation,” sanctions in this Court are appropriate … . Sonkin v Sonkin, 2018 NY Slip Op 00011, First Dept 1-2-18

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