Threatened with 6-Month Jail Term, Attorney Pays Daughter's $9,733 Tuition Bill
Threatened with a six-month jail term after his wife for the third year running sought a contempt order, a New York lawyer has narrowly avoided the slammer and purged a contempt order after paying his daughter’s court-ordered $9,733 tuition bill.
Attorney John J.P. Krol also was required to pay his wife’s legal fees by Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Robert Bruno, reports the New York Law Journal in an article reprinted in New York Lawyer (reg. req.).
The lawyer tells the legal publication he has no money to appeal Bruno’s ruling, with which he disagrees, and says “As an attorney, I feel I am being particularly penalized.” Krol says he has had to spend a $60,000 personal inheritance and take out a $10,000 loan as marital assets have remained undistributed in the four years since he filed for a divorce from his wife.
He says Bruno has agreed to mull further the attorney’s fee award.
Krol is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law, has a construction law and litigation practice and is of counsel at Welby Brady & Greenblatt in White Plains.
