A Bronx judge has rebuffed the complaint of a city government agency that the court was “micro-managing” the administration of a supplemental needs trust by reviewing proposed expenditures before they are made.

The case highlighted “increasing tension” created by the “resistance” of New York City’s Social Services Department to court supervision of incapacitated people’s finances, Supreme Court Justice Howard Sherman (See Profile) wrote in Matter of Geraldine R., 91285-2000.

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