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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Jerome Fisch, Respondent, v Dorothy Aiken, Appellant.
    [675 NYS2d 885]
   —In a special proceeding pursuant to CPLR 5206 (e) to direct the sale of a homestead, the appeal is from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (DiBlasi, J.), entered June 23, 1997, which granted the petition:

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

It is well settled that in a special proceeding, where no triable issues of fact are raised, the court may make a summary determination on the pleadings and papers submitted as if a motion for summary judgment were before it (see, CPLR 409 [b]; Matter of Friends World Coll, v Nicklin, 249 AD2d 393; Matter of Bahar v Schwartzreich, 204 AD2d 441).

Here, the appellant’s affidavit merely presents a feigned factual issue designed to avoid the consequences of the petitioner’s documentary evidence (see, Glick & Dolleck v Tri-Pac Export Corp., 22 NY2d 439; Capraro v Staten Is. Univ. Hosp., 245 AD2d 256; Garvin v Rosenberg, 204 AD2d 388). The Supreme Court, therefore, correctly decided the petition without a hearing.

The appellant’s remaining contentions are either without merit or are unpreserved for appellate review. O’Brien, J. P., Santucci, Krausman and Goldstein, JJ., concur.