Matter of Karla FF. v. Robert FF.

2019 NY Slip Op 2404

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: March 28, 2019
• Docket: 527013
• Status: Published

Opinion

Matter of Karla FF. v Robert FF. (2019 NY Slip Op 02404)

Matter of Karla FF. v Robert FF.

2019 NY Slip Op 02404

Decided on March 28, 2019

Appellate Division, Third Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided and Entered: March 28, 2019

527013

[*1]In the Matter of KARLA FF., Respondent,

v

ROBERT FF., Appellant.

Calendar Date: February 11, 2019
Before: Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark, Devine and Pritzker, JJ.

Kalter, Kaplan, Zeiger & Forman, Woodbourne (Terry S. Forman of counsel), for appellant.

Strauss & Kallus, PLLC, Goshen (Barbara J. Strauss of counsel), for respondent.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

Pritzker, J.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Sullivan County (McGuire, J.), entered September 22, 2017, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 8, denied respondent's motion to dismiss the petition.

Petitioner (hereinafter the wife) and respondent (hereinafter the husband) are married and have a divorce action pending. As relevant here, in July 2017, the wife filed this family offense petition and requested an order of protection. The husband thereafter filed a motion to dismiss the petition and requested that he be awarded counsel fees, which the wife opposed. Family Court denied the motion and the husband now appeals.

Pursuant to the Family Ct Act, with exceptions not relevant here, a party may only appeal as of right from a final order (see Family Ct Act § 1112 [a]; Matter of Kristie GG. v Sean GG., 168 AD3d 25, 27 n 1 [2018]; Matter of Kayson R. [Christina S.], 166 AD3d 1346, 1346 n 2 [2018]). As the denial of the husband's motion to dismiss is an intermediate order, an appeal does not lie as of right; accordingly, his appeal must be dismissed (see Family Ct Act § 1112 [a]; Matter of Timothy GG. [Meriah GG.], 163 AD3d 1065, 1067 [2018], lv denied 32 NY3d 908 [2018]; Matter of Justyce HH. [Shannon HH.], 151 AD3d 1216, 1216 [2017]). We note that, while this appeal was pending, a nonjury trial was held resulting in a January 17, 2018 order granting the wife's petition. An appeal from this dispositional order would bring up for review the denial of this motion to dismiss (see Matter of Kristie GG. v Sean GG., 168 AD3d at 27 n 1).

Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark and Devine, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed, without costs.