Lapkin v. Lapkin

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (David Saxe, J.), entered August 2, 1995, finding that defendant husband failed to purge himself of a previously adjudicated contempt and directing his incarceration, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

*200One who refuses to attend a hearing cannot claim that his absence was a denial of due process (Burke v Commissioner of Parole, 52 AD2d 589). Defendant’s counsel appeared and contested plaintiffs motion for a commitment order on the merits without objecting to any alleged defects in the notice and warning required by Judiciary Law § 756. Thus, defendant…