Ferrara v. Ferrara

In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Austin, J.), dated December 28, 1999, which denied his motion to vacate so much of a prior order of the same court, dated November 1, 1999, as directed him to pay an interim expert’s fee, and, sua sponte, imposed a sanction upon him in the sum of $750.

Ordered that on the Court’s own motion, that portion of the notice of appeal as purports to appeal as of right from the provision of the order which sua sponte imposed a sanction upon the defendant is treated as an…