IN THE MATTER OF LEIF WELLENSTEIN V ASHLEE J. LAFOUNTAINE
Motion No: CAF 25-01515
Slip Opinion No: 2025 NY Slip Op 79766(U)
Decided on October 30, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


October 30, 2025

PRESENT: WHALEN, P.J., LINDLEY, CURRAN, BANNISTER, AND MONTOUR, JJ.

CAF 25-01515
Docket No: V-1249-23/24A, V-1250-23/24A, V-1251-23/24A

IN THE MATTER OF LEIF WELLENSTEIN, PETITIONER-APPELLANT,

V

ASHLEE J. LAFOUNTAINE, RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.


Respondent-respondent having moved for a waiver of costs, fees, and expenses and for assignment of counsel on the appeal taken herein from an order of the Family Court, Steuben County, entered May 19, 2025,

Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed on the ground that the order appealed from is not an order of disposition appealable as of right (see Family Court Act § 1112 [a]), and

It is further ORDERED that the motion is dismissed.

Entered: October 30, 2025

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court