Respondent contends that her right to counsel was abridged by Family Court's failure to afford counsel an opportunity to make a closing statement at the hearing (see, Family Ct Act § 342.1 [5]). Since respondent's counsel neither requested the opportunity to make a closing argument nor objected to Family Court's apparent oversight in failing to ask counsel if he wished to make a closing statement, the issue has not been preserved...
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