Matter of Landis (Debora), 2011 NY Slip Op 08651 [89 AD3d 642]

November 29, 2011

Appellate Division, First Department

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Davidoff Malito & Hutcher LLP, New York (Derek Wolman of counsel), for appellant.

Lissner & Lissner LLP, New York (Barbara H. Urbach Lissner of counsel), temporary personal needs guardian for appellant.

Phillips Nizer LLP, New York (Elizabeth A. Adinolfi of counsel), for Marc A. Landis, respondent.

Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., New York (Jerry S. Goldman of counsel), for David Debora, respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lottie E. Williams, J.), entered June 13, 2011, which, insofar as appealed from, vacated, sua sponte, a so-ordered stipulation of settlement, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs, and the stipulation reinstated.

As the parties concede, the IAS court erred when it acted on its own initiative in vacating the parties’ stipulation of settlement of this article 81 proceeding ( see Hallock v State of New York , 64 NY2d 224, 230 [1984]; Charlop v A.O. Smith Water Prods. , 64 AD3d 486 , 486�[2009]). Rather, the proper course of action would have been to hold an evidentiary hearing ( see Kabir v Kabir , 85 AD3d 1127 , 1127-1128 [2011]). Alternatively, the petitioner or cross petitioner could have moved for enforcement of the stipulation ( see Hallock , 64 NY2d at 230). Concur—Saxe, J.P., Friedman, Renwick, DeGrasse and Freedman, JJ. [*2] Motion to strike briefs of cross petitioner and temporary personal needs guardian denied..