MATTER OF JOHN L.P.

2008-07102

72 A.D.3d 828 (2010)

898 N.Y.S.2d 465

In the Matter of JOHN L.P., Deceased, a Person Alleged to be Incapacitated. SAMUEL BOYKIN, Respondent; EMANI P. TAYLOR, Appellant.

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

Decided April 13, 2010.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

Under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the request of the appellant, a recently suspended attorney, for an adjournment to obtain new counsel where the appellant consented to the withdrawal of her attorney at the commencement of the hearing (see Hendry v Hilton, 283 App Div 168, 171 [1953]). Moreover, contrary to the appellant's contention, the...

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