A Long Island attorney did not engage in inappropriate ex parte conversations during custody proceedings, an appeals court in Brooklyn has held, overruling the attorney’s disqualification.
“Contrary to the mother’s conclusory assertions, there was no evidence that the father or his attorney improperly questioned the subject child regarding his interactions with the caseworker assigned to conduct the court-ordered investigation,” a unanimous Appellate Division, Second Department, panel wrote on July 25 in Matter of Madris, 2012-02352. The decision reversed a February disqualification ordered by Family Court Judge Julianne Eisman in Nassau County (See Profile).
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