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While no medical testimony or documentation was provided, and the{**182 AD3d at 48} Surrogate's Court might well have denied the withdrawal motion for that reason (see Matter of Plaro Estates, Inc. v Assessor, 101 AD3d 886, 888 [2012]; Winney v County of Saratoga, 252 AD2d at 883), or requested the submission of supporting medical documentation, the court evidently was satisfied that Reppert's condition was serious and substantial, as evidenced by its unchallenged finding that Reppert was unable to continue with the representation. Ordered that the amended order dated November 13, 2017, is reversed, on the law, the petitioner's motion to vacate and declare void all decisions, orders, and judgments entered after March 14, 2016, is granted to the extent that all decisions, orders, and judgments entered in all proceedings herein between March 14, 2016, and July 25, 2016, are vacated, and the motion is otherwise denied; and it is further. Marianne contends that she was denied procedural due process when the court decided the cross motion to appoint a receiver without giving her notice of the return date and of a deadline for submission of opposition papers. Appellate Division, Second Department They further argued that RK employed at least one attorney besides Reppert, namely, Kelly, who was quite familiar with the proceeding. Marianne, in a later affidavit, asserted that Keller entered the courtroom and directed the parties to a conference/library room, but Keller told McKay that he could not accompany Marianne to the room; McKay then left the courtroom. This was, under the circumstances, the practical equivalent of more than 30 days' notice to the litigant to appoint new counsel. The terms of the March 14, 2016 order are essentially similar to those set forth in the February 16, 2016 orders. At the conference, it was announced for the first time, to McKay's knowledge, that a trial in the accounting proceeding was being scheduled to take place on July 25 to 29. The objectants contend that, even if Reppert was disabled, the statutory stay was not implicated because Marianne failed to oppose or object to RK's withdrawal motion. Harper, in a later affirmation, claimed that McKay once again refused to enter a general appearance on Marianne's behalf and, consequently, was excused from the proceedings. The March 14, 2016 order, granting RK's withdrawal from representing Marianne in the accounting proceeding, did not explicitly state that Marianne had to find new counsel. at 1311). We dismiss Marianne's appeal from the order dated December 21, 2017, inter alia, directing that a warrant of arrest and commitment issue, because no appeal lies as of right from an order that does not decide a motion made on notice (see CPLR 5701 [a] [2]; LaSalle Bank N.A. Telmark is instructive in several respects. The circumstances present here could have been readily avoided had the objectants withheld their motion to appoint a receiver until after a determination of the motions by Marianne's counsel for leave to withdraw and until after they had served a notice to appoint counsel upon Marianne. Marianne Nestor Cassini Court: SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department Date published: Feb 13, Even if it is assumed that this finding was not imported into the accounting proceeding until the March 14, 2016 order relieving RK made in that proceeding, and that the stay did not take effect in that proceeding until March 14, 2016, there is no significant consequence as it does not appear that any judicial determinations were rendered in the interval between February 16 and March 14, 2016. Thus, she had some level of awareness that she had to seek new counsel, either because she was aware of the pending motions for leave to withdraw and/or was aware of the February 16, 2016 orders relieving RK in the turnover and SNT proceedings. 2020 NY Slip Op 01055 While she is not an attorney, we also recognize that she is a sophisticated litigant and had she raised the issue earlier, much of the ensuing procedural morass may have been avoided. In particular, Marianne filed the petition for judicial settlement of her intermediate account in December 2010 or January 2011. [Scott T. Horn], of counsel), for petitioner-appellant, and Peggy Nestor, New York, NY, respondent-appellant pro se (one brief filed). While the Surrogate's Court relieved counsel and provided for a 30-day stay of proceedings, it failed to require that the adverse parties serve the orders relieving counsel upon the litigant whose counsel was permitted to withdraw. Cassini Marianne's claims against OCI and CPL were disallowed. Matter of Cassini :: 2020 :: New York Appellate Division, Additionally, in Harper's description, "Marianne engaged in a pattern of obstruction the likes of which is rarely seen in litigation." of County Attorney, 61 NY2d 739, 742 [1984] [internal quotation marks omitted]; see Wells Fargo Bank Minn., N.A. Keller said that she was aware of that and that an order granting RK's withdrawal motion in the accounting proceeding "would be going out 'in the next day or two.' Here, we consider whether Marianne, who did appear pro se, did so voluntarily for a period of time before raising the CPLR 321 (c) issue. Kelly claimed that over the next five weeks, he called the Surrogate's Court multiple times. In dealing with death, removal, or disability of an attorney of record for a party, CPLR 321 (c) postulates the existence of a singular individual who has died, has been removed or suspended, or has become disabled. Following the recess, the court announced that it appeared Marianne had left. The court ordered that a warrant of arrest and commitment would issue directing the Nassau County Sheriff to arrest Marianne and take her into custody, and to bring her before the court to be committed to jail until she complied with the October 19, 2016 order. In Telmark, Inc. v Mills (199 AD2d 579 [1993]), the Appellate Division, Third Department, found, on the facts presented, that there was no violation of CPLR 321 (c). Marianne petitioned in the Surrogate's Court to judicially settle the intermediate account of the decedent's estate. Accordingly, this Court concluded that raising that statute in the Surrogate's Court proceeding would not have resulted in a determination that Christina's claim was barred (see id. Harper, in a later affirmation, claimed that the court declined to hear argument from McKay after he answered that he would not be making a general appearance for Marianne. Kelly noted that the unopposed motions by RK and Sills Cummis for leave to withdraw were returnable on January 13, 2016. You're all set! Nothing precludes the court from serving the notice to appoint. However, absent special circumstances, there may be only one attorney of record for a party in a single action (see Stinnett v Sears Roebuck & Co., 201 AD2d 362, 364 [1994]; Matter of Kitsch Riker Oil Co., 23 AD2d 502 [1965]; but see Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v Russian Kurier, Inc., 140 F3d 442, 452 [2d Cir 1998] [recognizing second attorney of record for the purpose of charging lien]). In a probate proceeding in which Marianne Nestor Cassini, the former executor of the estate of Oleg Cassini, petitioned for judicial settlement of her intermediate account of the estate, Marianne Nestor Cassini appeals, and Peggy Nestor separately appeals, from an order of the Surrogate's Court, Nassau County (Edward W. McCarty III, S.), dated November 5, 2015. In May, Marianne Nestor Cassini, 68, traded a multimillionaire's lifestyle for that of an inmate as part of an inheritance fight that has lasted more than a decade. The Court of Appeals did not agree: CPLR 321 (c) applies to circumstances in which an event occurs which is personal to the attorney of record which involuntarily prevents the attorney of record from continuing to represent the party, notwithstanding the attorney's willingness to do so (see Hendry v Hilton, 283 App Div at 171). In 1952, the decedent and his then-wife Gene Tierney entered into a "Property Settlement Agreement" (hereinafter the PSA) that was incorporated by reference into a California final judgment of divorce entered April 7, 1953. In McGregor v McGregor (212 AD2d at 956), the attorney of record was disbarred. Either way, the stay attaches, but subject to the court's authority to vary it in appropriate cases. Generally, "a person is aggrieved when he or she asks for relief but that relief is denied in whole or in part. {**182 AD3d at 19}, III. CASSINI The Pathways for Replacing an Attorney of Record. She did not return during the trial. One of those motions was to adjourn the trial. Instead, there was handwriting near the lower left corner of the second page of the order to show cause reading, "Denied without merit," and bearing the Surrogate's signature and the date "7/21/16.". Kaplan further averred that Marianne had made statements which prevented him from representing her in the absence of Reppert continuing to serve as lead counsel. The record includes papers in connection with motions for leave to withdraw made separately by RK and by Sills Cummis. MARIANNE NESTOR CASSINI Reppert's medical condition, which deteriorated well after he began representing Marianne in lengthy, protracted proceedings, was a cause over which Marianne had no control and was not due to fault on her part. As corrected through Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Legal Battles Over Oleg Cassinis Estate Continue Here, both RK and Sills Cummis described themselves and were simultaneously recognized without objection as being attorneys of record for Marianne, although Sills Cummis's role, as described by Kaplan, was to assist Reppert and RK. This case was filed in New York County Courts, The record before us contains an order dated March 14, 2016, of the Surrogate's Court, in which the court granted RK's withdrawal{**182 AD3d at 26} motion in the accounting proceeding. [1] We see no reason why, in a circumstance where an attorney of record has become incapacitated, CPLR 321 (c) would apply to the exclusion of the other pathways provided in CPLR 321 for replacing the attorney of record. Ordered that one bill of costs is awarded to the petitioner. Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate "It was at that time that Mr. McKay immediately and promptly withdrew . Kelly further stated that he had contacted counsel for the objectants, Robert M. Harper of Farrell Fritz, P.C., to request consent to adjourn the cross motion until after the motions for leave to withdraw were heard, but Harper refused to consent. That same day, the Surrogate's Court distributed copies of its decision dated June 29, 2016, determining to grant the objectants' cross motion to appoint a receiver (2016 NY Slip Op 32022[U] [Sur Ct, Nassau County 2016]). Second, the defendant responded to that notice by voluntarily electing to proceed pro se. During or around the time these probate matters were pending in the Surrogate's Court, Nassau County, Marianne also was involved in litigation she commenced in California, seeking a judicial determination regarding the respective rights and obligations under the judgment of divorce between the decedent and his former wife, Gene Tierney (see Cassini v Belmont, 2012 WL 3594378, 2012 Cal App Unpub LEXIS 6167 [Aug. 22, 2012, No. Reppert had represented the decedent for more than 15 years and represented OCI and Marianne for more than 20 years. While Marianne's right to counsel, and her rights under CPLR 321 (c), should be protected, so too should the objectants' rights to prevent dissipation or looting of the estate and its assets. Following Christina's death in 2015, attorney John J. Barnosky and Alexandre Cassini Belmont (hereinafter together the objectants) became the executors of her estate and successor administrators of Daria's estate. Objection 34 alleged that Marianne's account of the estate omitted a claim made by Daria asserting her entitlement to 25% of the decedent's net estate. Nor did he assert that RK, or either of its constituent partners, was aware of, or on notice of, the March 14, 2016 order. The PSA was incorporated verbatim, in its entirety, into an interlocutory judgment of divorce (see id.). Daria died in 2010, and litigation followed involving Marianne and Christina regarding a certain testamentary trust established for Daria's benefit (see Matter of Cassini, 120 AD3d 799 [2014]). In Moray, this Court affirmed the Supreme Court's order granting the defendant's motion pursuant to CPLR 3012 (b) to dismiss the action for failure to timely serve a complaint, holding, inter alia, that the plaintiff's contention that the action{**182 AD3d at 44} had been stayed pursuant to CPLR 321 (c) was raised for the first time on appeal and, thus, was not properly before us (see Moray v Koven & Krause, Esqs., 62 AD3d 765 [2009], revd 15 NY3d 384 [2010]). The decedent's will did not provide for the testamentary disposition specified in the PSA, so Christina asserted a claim against the decedent's estate and, essentially, sought to have a constructive trust imposed on certain estate assets (see id. Div. She claimed that she was never informed of a date when her opposition to the cross motion would be due, or when it was to be rescheduled. In her affidavit submitted in support of that motion, Marianne asserted, as noted above, that during April and May 2016 she met with no fewer than five or six law firms regarding her case and their possible engagement. The client always has the option of discharging the attorney, in which event the discharge is immediate (see Farage v Ehrenberg, 124 AD3d 159, 165 [2014]). In any event, no one served her with it. Cassini The March 6, 2017 order provided, in part: B. By Bridget Murphy Decided January 10, 2020. 773 [2020]; Matter of Cassini, 180 AD3d 775 [2020]). We also note that Marianne never raised the issue of the CPLR 321 (c) stay until April 2017, when she moved to vacate and nullify all judicial determinations made since March 14, 2016. IX. Here, Marianne moved to vacate the determination granting the cross motion to appoint a receiver for OCI and CPL upon her default{**182 AD3d at 55} in opposing the cross motion. On June 29, 2016, Marianne again appeared in court with McKay. Leventhal, Cohen and Hinds-Radix, JJ., concur. Marianne Nestor Cassini claims the county, Surrogate Court Judge Margaret Reilly, Nassau Public Administrator Brian Curran, the Nassau Sheriff and numerous others want to get Mrs. Cassini out of the way while they sold-off her and her husbands property for their own personal profit. Here, however, there is nothing in the record indicating that Marianne's voluntary act or wrongdoing caused Reppert's withdrawal. Sign up for our free summaries and get the latest delivered directly to you. He asserted that he was "physically unable to provide the representation that is necessary to properly represent [his client]," Marianne. At the conclusion of the June 8th conference, Marianne claims she was told that there would be another conference on June 29, 2016. Since both before and after the interposition of the June 28, 2016 motion, Marianne clearly sought the services of counsel, we cannot say the June 28 motion reflected her volitional determination to represent herself as of that date. ", Similarly, in a later affidavit, Marianne asserted that on June 8, 2016, the Surrogate's Court directed that the trial would proceed on Monday, July 25, 2016. He came to the United States as a young man after starting as a designer in Rome, and quickly got work with Paramount Pictures. The trial commenced as scheduled. To the contrary, the record contains uncontradicted assertions by Kelly that he continued to ask the court for a decision on RK's motion for leave to withdraw from the accounting proceeding until May 23, 2016, when he finally learned of the existence of the March 14, 2016 order. They urged that for CPLR 321 (c) to apply based on a party's attorney's mental or physical incompetency, the attorney's withdrawal application had to be supported by medical proof to substantiate the attorney's condition. In 2015, the Surrogate's Court, Nassau County (Edward W. McCarty III, S.), issued two orders which are the subject of related appeals decided herewith (Matter of Cassini, 180 AD3d 182 A.D.3d 13 (N.Y. App. This pathway requires the attorney of record to move, by order to show cause, on such notice as the court may direct, to be relieved. However, Kelly averred that he had not received an order or decision on RK's motion for leave to withdraw in the accounting proceeding. Thus, the order dated July 1, 2016, in effect, granting the cross motion to appoint a receiver, and appointing a receiver, should have been vacated in the interest of justice as having been the product of mistake, inadvertence, and surprise. Indeed, the Surrogate's Court's own statement that the cross motion was submitted, unopposed, in April 2016, raises questions. Matter of Cassini (2020 NY Slip Op 01057) The inclusion of Kelly of RK, and the exclusion of Marianne, as recipient of the motion, supports a conclusion that Farrell Fritz, P.C., as attorneys for the movants, was unaware, as of May 13, 2016, that RK's motion for leave to withdraw had been decided two months earlier. Date published: Feb 13, 2020. In a probate proceeding in which Marianne Nestor Cassini, the former executor of the estate of Oleg Cassini, petitioned for judicial settlement of her
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