Opinion
July 5, 1988
Appeal from the Family Court, Dutchess County (Marlow, J.).
Ordered that the appeal is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.
Family Court Act § 1112 provides that an appeal "may be taken as of right from any order of disposition and, in the discretion of the appropriate appellate division, from any other order under the Family Court Act" (see, Matter of Zavistowski v Zavistowski, 54 A.D.2d 986). An order of disposition is the equivalent of a "`final order or judgment'" (Matter of Taylor v. Taylor, 23 A.D.2d 747, quoting from former Domestic Relations Ct Act § 58 and former Children's Ct Act § 43). An order denying a motion for summary judgment on a petition is not an order of disposition within the meaning of that section, and accordingly, this appeal does not lie as of right. Since no application for permission to appeal was made, the appeal is not properly before this court (see, Firestone v. Firestone, 44 A.D.2d 671). We note, however, that we have examined the merits of the appeal and that, had the appeal been properly before us, we would have affirmed so much of the order as the petitioner seeks to have reviewed. Bracken, J.P., Kunzeman, Eiber and Kooper, JJ., concur.