Frevola v. Frevola

—In a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, nonparty Gabriele, Scagluso & Kuhn, L. L. P., appeals from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Trainor, J.), dated September 11, 1998, which directed them to continue to provide legal services to the respondent as her attorneys in the proceeding.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

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