A family court judge properly refused to sign a consent order for ex-spouses he found were trying, with their lawyers, to erase substantial fees owed to prior counsel, a state appeals court held on Wednesday.
The Appellate Division, in Clemente v. Clemente, A-0487-11, agreed with Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Terence Flynn that signing the order would have constituted a "gross dereliction of his judicial responsibilities."
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