ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Parents lack standing to sue their children’s law guardians for legal malpractice, an upstate appellate court has decided.

Ruling unanimously in a case of appellate first impression in New York, the Appellate Division, Fourth Department, affirmed the dismissal of a complaint brought by a mother against a law guardian in Erie County.

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