Matter of Manuel P.A. v. Emilie B.

Appeal from order, Family Court, New York County (Ad-etokunbo O. Fasanya, J.), entered on or about January 21, 2016, to the extent it awarded $33,701.50 of interim counsel fees to the respondent mother in the form of sanctions against the petitioner father, unanimously dismissed, without costs.

This appeal was improperly taken from a nondispositional Family Court order without leave of court (Family Ct Act § 1112; 22 NYCRR 600.3; CPLR 5512 [a]; Matter of Lutfee M., 157 AD2d 604 [1st Dept 1990], lv denied 75 NY2d 710 [1990]). The father has presented no excuse for his failure to move for leave…