Monticello v Brown
2007 NY Slip Op 05238 [41 AD3d 559]
June 12, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 15, 2007


Charles Monticello, Respondent,
v
Shelly Brown, Defendant. Philip S. Milone, Nonparty Appellant.

[*1] Philip S. Milone, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (Martin M. Howfield of counsel), nonparty appellant pro se.

Elisabeth A. Vreeburg, Kew Gardens, N.Y., for respondent. In an action, inter alia, for child custody, the law guardian appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Satterfield, J.), dated December 20, 2005, as, in effect, denied, without a hearing, that branch of his motion which was to direct the father to pay the balance of a fee due and owing to him.

Ordered that the order and judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

Under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court's determination regarding the apportionment of the law guardian's fee was proper (see Matter of Plovnick v Klinger, 10 AD3d 84 [2004]; Matter of Department of Social Servs. v Wolfson, 228 AD2d 594 [1996]). Spolzino, J.P., Skelos, Dillon and McCarthy, JJ., concur.