Legal Opinion
Bentz v. Bentz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 6, 2007PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*387In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the plaintiff appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Bivona, J.), dated April 13, 2006, as, sua sponte, disqualified his counsel.
Ordered that on the Court’s own motion, the plaintiffs notice of appeal is treated as an application for leave to appeal, and leave to appeal is granted (see CPLR 5701 [c]); and it is further,
Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law and the facts and as a matter of discretion, with costs.
The Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in sua…
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