Kaye v. Rosefielde

The opinion of the court was delivered by

FUENTES, P.J.A.D.

This case has been besieged by an inordinate amount of complications, some inherent to the issues raised by the parties, others created by a series of unfortunate and misguided decisions of the first judge who presided over the case. We are compelled to address some of the root causes of these problems to adequately review and resolve the legal issues raised by the parties in this appeal. While going about this task, we are mindful to prevent matters extraneous to the appellate process from interfering with our overriding…