Venecia V. v. August V.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Saxe, J.

This appeal, arising in the context of a contentious post-divorce dispute, raises a variety of challenges to the court’s determinations involving custody, visitation and expenses. While the bulk of these issues may be briefly addressed seriatim, we must address at greater length the unresolved question of whether parents who are directed to pay the fees of the attorney appointed to represent the children may raise the defense of legal malpractice to that attorney’s claim for fees. Determination of this issue requires us to decide whether, as defendant father…