Opinion
December 27, 2000.
Appeal from Order of Erie County Family Court, Battle, J. — Contempt.
PRESENT: GREEN, J. P., PINE, HAYES AND SCUDDER, JJ.
Order unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum:
Respondent waived the protections of Judiciary Law § 756 by contesting the contempt applications on the merits without raising his present objections to the manner in which the proceedings were commenced ( see, Matter of Rappaport, 58 N.Y.2d 725, 726; Matter of Glenn v. Glenn, 262 A.D.2d 885, 886, lv dismissed in part and denied in part 94 N.Y.2d 782). The record supports the Hearing Examiner's findings of fact ( see, Matter of Mass. DOR/CSE v. Haystrand, 256 A.D.2d 1235), and thus Family Court properly confirmed them. We conclude that respondent's objections to the findings of fact are without merit and thus that the court properly rejected them.