Guerin v. Guerin

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Essex County (Dawson, J.), entered March 24, 1994, which granted respondent’s application to disqualify petitioner’s counsel.

As a threshold matter, the order appealed from was not a dispositional order from which an appeal can be taken as of right (Family Ct Act § 1112 [a]). Rather than dismiss the appeal, however, we shall grant permission to appeal sua sponte (see, Matter of Maryanne PP. v Richard QQ., 192 AD2d 747, 748, n). Based upon conflicting factual averments in a series of unsworn letters by respondent and petitioner’s counsel, Family Court…