Obadiah v. Shaw

—In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, (1) the plaintiff Caroline Obadiah, as executor of the estate of Regina Leibowitz, appeals (a) from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Lifson, J.), entered June 30, 1998, as granted the motion of the court-appointed Referee to hold Regina Leibowitz in civil contempt of court based on her failure to comply with a prior order of the same court dated November 17, 1997, and (b) by permission, from so much of the same order as directed a hearing on the penalty to be imposed for the contempt, and (2) nonparty Herbert…