New York Domestic Relations Law Section 77-P - Costs and expenses.

  77-p.  Costs  and expenses. If the respondent is not the prevailing
  party, the court may assess against the respondent all  direct  expenses
  and  costs  incurred  by  the  prosecutor  or  other  appropriate public
  official and law enforcement officers under section  seventy-seven-n  or
  seventy-seven-o of this title.

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