Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M205897

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L. PRISCILLA HALL, J.P.

SANDRA L. SGROI

JEFFREY A. COHEN

JOSEPH J. MALTESE, JJ.

2015-08767 Steven B Schonfeld, respondent, v Sidra Saucedo, appellant. (Index No. 203312/13)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant on an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered September 8, 2015, inter alia, to direct the respondent's counsel to release certain support payments held in escrow and to hold the respondent in civil contempt with respect to a decision and order on motion of this Court dated October 1, 2015, which stayed enforcement of the order entered September 8, 2015.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is

ORDERED that on the Court's own motion, the appeal is dismissed, without costs or disbursements, on the ground that it has been rendered academic; and it is further,

ORDERED that the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Nassau County, to hear and report on whether the respondent should be held in civil contempt with respect to the decision and order on motion of this Court dated October 1, 2015, and the appellant's motion is held in abeyance in the interim. The Supreme Court, Nassau County, shall file its report with all convenient speed.

ORDERED that the stay granted by the decision and order on motion of this Court dated October 1, 2015, is vacated forthwith.

HALL, J.P., SGROI, COHEN and MALTESE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court