The New Jersey Supreme Court panel handling judicial ethics matters is recommending that a Passaic County Superior Court judge be removed from the bench for improperly intervening in a child custody matter, and then being dishonest with investigators after a complaint was filed against her.

The court's Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, in a presentment dated Oct. 24 but released Thursday, unanimously recommended that Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi be removed from the bench.