MITCHELL JAFFE v. JAFFE


44 A.D.3d 825 (2007)

844 N.Y.S.2d 97

DANA MITCHELL JAFFE, Respondent, v. KENNETH JAFFE, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided October 16, 2007.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court properly denied, without a hearing, that branch of the defendant's motion which was to hold the plaintiff in contempt based upon her alleged interference with his visitation with the parties' children. A hearing is not mandated "in every instance where contempt is sought; it need only be conducted if a factual dispute exists which cannot be resolved on the papers alone" (

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