Janel E. v. Samuel E.

Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Marjory D. Fields, J.), entered July 6, 1990, which disqualified and removed respondent’s attorneys, unanimously modified on the law, the facts and in the exercise of discretion to disqualify the specific counsel assigned to him by his plan, but not the remaining attorneys of the Legal Services Plan and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

In this child abuse proceeding, respondent-father was represented by his union’s prepaid Legal Services Plan-Local 237. During a hearing, petitioner’s witness, the children’s mother, testified that she had been coerced by…