Opinion
3509.
Decided April 29, 2004.
Appeal from order, Surrogate's Court, New York County (Eve Preminger, S.), entered December 24, 2002, which denied the motion of Julie D. Lefkowitz, to vacate the accounting decree entered November 19, 2002, unanimously dismissed, with separate bills of costs payable by appellant.
Julie D. Lefkowitz, Petitioner, The Bank of New York, etc., et al., Respondents-Respondents. Adrienne Marsh Lefkowitz, etc., Nonparty Appellant.
Adrienne Marsh Lefkowitz, appellant pro se.
McCarthy, Fingar, Donovan, Drazen Smith, L.L.P., White Plains (Robert M. Redis of counsel), for The Bank of New York, respondent.
S. Timothy Ball, New York, for Fine respondents.
Greene Zinner, P.C., White Plains (Brett D. Zinner of counsel), for Claudia M. Appelbaum, respondent.
Before: Tom, J.P., Ellerin, Lerner, Marlow, JJ.
The purported appellant, Adrienne Marsh Lefkowitz, not having joined in the motion to vacate the subject accounting decree and never having been substituted for the movant, is not a proper appellant ( see CPLR 5511). We note, in any case, that the movant, Julie D. Lefkowitz, elected not to formally appear in the accounting proceeding ( see SCPA 401), and was thus without standing to bring the motion in the first instance.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.