Opinion
February 19, 1991
Appeal from the Family Court, Queens County (Torres, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
Contrary to the appellant's contention, the record indicates that he was not deprived of his right to counsel when the Family Court refused to grant his newly-assigned counsel an adjournment during the fact-finding hearing. We note that the fact-finding determination was based, in part, on the appellant's conviction of various criminal charges relating to his sexual abuse of one of his three children, which judgment of conviction was recently affirmed by this court. Further, the appellant had seven months to confer with his assigned counsel prior to the dispositional hearing.
Since the order of protection expired on November 1, 1990, any argument with regard to its duration is academic (see, Matter of Laura W., 160 A.D.2d 585; Matter of Gerald H., 158 A.D.2d 599). In any event, the Family Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in entering an order of protection against the appellant for one year. Thompson, J.P., Kunzeman, Lawrence and Miller, JJ., concur.