Case Name: Linda G. Korth, Appellant, v. Bernard C. Cost, Jr., Respondent. Carman M. Garufi, as Law Guardian, Appellant. (And Another Related Proceeding.)
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1996-07-11
Citations: 229 A.D.2d 696
Docket Number: 
Parties: Linda G. Korth, Appellant, v Bernard C. Cost, Jr., Respondent. Carman M. Garufi, as Law Guardian, Appellant. (And Another Related Proceeding.)
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 229
Pages: 696–697

Head Matter:
Linda G. Korth, Appellant, v Bernard C. Cost, Jr., Respondent. Carman M. Garufi, as Law Guardian, Appellant. (And Another Related Proceeding.)
[644 NYS2d 911]

Opinion:
Spain, J.
Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Broome County (Pines, J.), entered March 14, 1995, which, in two proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, inter alia, excluded the Law Guardian of the parties' children from an in camera hearing with one of the children.
This appeal does not challenge Family Court's determination dismissing the petitions herein. Accordingly, the appeal should be dismissed.
Notably, there is nothing in the record upon which this Court can determine the basis for Family Court's exclusion of the Law Guardian from the Lincoln hearing (see, Matter of Lincoln v Lincoln, 24 NY2d 270). We reject any practice whereby Law Guardians are routinely excluded from such an important stage of a proceeding (see, Frizzell v Frizzell, 177 AD2d 825, 826; see also, Miller v Miller, 220 AD2d 133).
Cardona, P. J., Mikoll, Crew III and Yesawich Jr., JJ., concur. Ordered that the appeal is dismissed, without costs.