Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M247550

E/afa

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P.

SHERI S. ROMAN

BETSY BARROS

LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.

2017-03028 In the Matter of Christopher Edwards, respondent, v Danielle Edwards, appellant. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Christopher L. Edwards, etc., respondent, v Danielle E. Edwards, appellant. (Proceeding No. 2) (Docket Nos. V-2189-08/16F, V-2190-08/16F, V-2189-08/16G, V-2190-08/16G, O-82-17)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant to enlarge the record on an appeal from an order of the Family Court, Orange County, dated February 15, 2017, to include certain documents, to strike the brief filed by the respondent in response to the brief filed by the attorney for the children, and to accept the appellant's reply brief for filing. Separate motion by the respondent to impose a sanction upon the appellant, for an award of an attorney's fee, to disqualify the attorney for the children, and to stay all proceedings in the above-entitled matters, pending hearing and determination of the appeal.

Upon the papers filed in support of the appellant's motion and the papers filed in opposition and in relation thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of the respondent's motion and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is to enlarge the record is denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that the branches of the motion which are to strike the brief filed by the respondent in response to the brief filed by the attorney for the children and to accept the appellant's reply brief for filing are denied as unnecessary as the respondent's brief which was in response to the brief filed by the attorney for the children was rejected for filing and the appellant's reply brief was timely filed; and it is further,

ORDERED that the respondent's motion is denied.

CHAMBERS, J.P., ROMAN, BARROS and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court