Herman v. Herman

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR 7503 (a) to compel arbitration and stay a proceeding entitled Matter of Herman v Herman, pending before the Family Court, Kings County, under docket No. F-06826-11, the petitioner appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Martin, J.), dated July 5, 2012, as denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

“ ‘Arbitration is essentially a creature of contract in which the parties themselves charter a private tribunal…