Matter of Burke v. Erle

Appeals from two orders of the Family Court, Dutchess County (Valentino T. Sammarco, J.), both entered July 25, 2013. The first order, in effect, granted the petitioner’s motion to hold Stephen Erie in contempt of so much of a prior order as directed him to pay an attorney’s fee to the petitioner. The second order directed the entry of a money judgment in favor of the petitioner and against Stephen Erie in the principal sum of $4,230.

Ordered that the orders are affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The petitioner proved by clear and convincing evidence (1) that a lawful order of the court,…