Friedman v. Silberfein (In Re Silberfein)

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• noting that attorney’s fees are not always classified as support when deriving from matrimonial actions
• “If a debtor is ordered to pay an ex-spouses’ attorneys fees incident to a dissolution, and the fee awarded are based upon need, such fees are usually nondischargeable being in the nature of support”
• a court is required to determine if the award of counsel fees to the debtor’s spouse was a necessary concomitant to her ability to defend or maintain her matrimonial action, and therefore an inescapable duty of the debtor to support his former spouse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).