Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
After learning that his trial counsel had a prior personal relationship with the Family Court Judge presiding over this custody proceeding, the father moved, inter alia, to vacate the award of counsel fees to the mother. The matter was reassigned to a new Judge who reviewed the counsel fee application de novo without a hearing and determined that the award was reasonable. We affirm.
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