Matter of DC v Masley
2016 NY Slip Op 04662 [140 AD3d 493]
June 14, 2016
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 3, 2016


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 In the Matter of DC, Petitioner,
v
Andrea Masley, Respondent.

Mental Hygiene Legal Service, New York (Diane G. Temkin of counsel), for petitioner.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York (Michael J. Siudzinski of counsel), for respondent.

Application pursuant to CPLR article 78 for a writ of prohibition to prevent respondent Supreme Court Justice from conducting further proceedings in a guardianship matter unanimously denied, and the proceeding dismissed, without costs.

In a consent guardianship proceeding, upon granting petitioner's motion to discharge her guardian, the court reappointed the court evaluator and ordered a further hearing. Petitioner has "fail[ed] to identify any arrogation of power infringing a clear legal right, and thus the extraordinary remedy of prohibition is not available" (Matter of Perry v Barrett, 113 AD3d 536, 537 [1st Dept 2014], lv denied 23 NY3d 902 [2014]). The court did not dismiss the guardianship petition and did not lose jurisdiction when it discharged the guardian. Even if petitioner is correct that the court erred in ordering a hearing when neither the guardian nor the original guardianship petitioner objected to the motion to discharge, these claims of legal error can be raised on direct appeal and are insufficient to warrant prohibition (see Matter of DeVincenzo v Morgenthau, 161 AD2d 476, 477 [1st Dept 1990]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Sweeny, Moskowitz, Richter and Gesmer, JJ.