MOSES SEGAL VS. CYNTHIA LYNCH A-2134-09T3
prevailing party, and under the retainer agreement, a coordinator was properly paid for the time spent in a party's grievances filed against her and reporting
that response to the court which were found by the court to be without merit. The fees sought by the parenting coordinator were in her role as a parenting coordinator and not as an attorney pro se.
Under the Guidelines of the Pilot Parenting Coordinator Program, the court was not required upon request to hold a hearing on a party's grievances, but it was left to the discretion of the court. Where, as here, there were no material issues of disputed fact, the court was well within its discretion not to hold a hearing. It was not inappropriate to test the merits of the grievances by utilizing the summary judgment model.
Likewise, the court was not required to hold a hearing on the amount of the payment to be made to the parenting coordinator for the services performed.
