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46. LeFavour v Koch, 124 AD2d 903 (3d Dept 1986) (custody); Albert G. v
Denise B., 181 AD2d 732 (2d Dept 1992) (termination of visitation).
47. The Statewide Law Guardian Advisory Committee, Law Guardian Program
Administrative Handbook, at 2-3.
48. NYSBA Standards; see also Appellate Division First Department Law
Guardian Definition and Standards.
49. See Nancy Erickson, The Role of the Law Guardian in a Custody Case
Involving Domestic Violence, 27 Fordham Urb L J 817 (2000), for a
thorough review of the standards and how the consideration of domestic
violence expands the role of the law guardian.
50. Koppenhoefer v Koppenhoefer, 159 AD2d 113 (2d Dept 1990).
51. Wissink, 301 AD2d 36 (2d Dept 2002).
52. Eli, NYLJ, November 12, 1998, at 25.
53. See Alanna M. v Duncan M., 204 AD2d 409 (2d Dept 1994).
54. See In the Matter of Rebecca B., 204 AD2d 57 (1st Dept 1994); Rentschler
v Rentschler, 204 AD2d 60 (1st Dept 1994).
55. 301 AD2d 36 (2d Dept 2002).
56. Id.
57. Some of the relevant literature includes: American Psychological Association
Presidential Task Force, Report on Violence and the Family, 1996;
American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence, The Impact
of Domestic Violence on Your Legal Practice, 1996, ch 5; The Impact of
Spousal Abuse on Children, Marjory Fields, 3 Cornell J Law and Public
Policy, No. 2 1994; Ann Jones, Next Time, She’ll Be Dead: Battering and
How to Stop It, 1994, ch 3; Lundy Bancroft and Jay Silverman, The
Batterer as Parent, 2002.
58. Lynne Bravo Rosewater, Clinical and Courtroom Application of Battered
Women’s Personality Assessments, Domestic Violence on Trial:
Psychological And Legal Dimensions of Family Violence, ed Daniel Jay
Sonkin, (1987).
59. CPLR 3120; see also Kessler v Kessler, 10 NY2d 445 (1962).
60. Ochs v Ochs, 193 Misc 2d 502 (Sup Ct, Westchester County,, 2002);
Feuerman v Feuerman 112 Misc 2d 96 (Sup Ct, NY County, 1982);
Nicholson v Nicholson, NYLJ, January 5, 2004, at 19, col 1.