A disgraced Superior Court judge in Passaic County who was barred from the bench last year will lose her state pension for aiding an intern in a child custody dispute and lying to authorities.

The state Supreme Court dismissed Liliana DeAvila-Silebi in September from her seat on the bench for violating the state's Code of Judicial Conduct. In early December, members of the New Jersey State House Commission followed with a rare vote to strip DeAvila-Silebi of her pension, the first time that has happened in at least 10 years, according to state Sen. Gerald Cardinale, a commission member.

“We had never seen a case like this before,” Cardinale said of the commission, which oversees judicial pensions.

DeAvila-Silebi came under fire in 2015 for helping Vivianne Chermont, a former judicial intern, win custody of her child for Mother's Day weekend. State investigators found that DeAvila-Silebi placed a phone call to Fort Lee police, informing them that Chermont had a court order to have her 5-year-old son on Mother's Day weekend, but the father took custody instead.

The order, however, never existed. DeAvila-Silebi also misrepresented to police that she was the presiding judge over the Bergen County case, when she was actually a civil division judge in Passiac County.

The state Supreme Court found that DeAvila-Silebi misused her position to "advance the private interests of a litigant," made "false statements under oath" and "altered telephone records" to cover her tracks.

Cardinale said the state commission reviewed the Supreme Court order before voting.

“What’s striking is that she continued to provide cover stories as time went on,” he said. “There’s no respect for the law.”

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Cardinale, Assemblyman Paul Moriarity, Assemblyman John DiMaio and Deputy State Treasurer Catherine Brennan voted to strip DeAvila-Silebi of her pension. State Sen. Bob Smith, Justin Braz, Gov. Phil Murphy’s deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs, and David Ridolfino, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, voted to allow the former judge to keep her benefits.

The bipartisan commission controls the sale and leasing of state-owned properties but is also the trustee of the state’s pension fund for judges.

Cardinale, who has served on the commission for the past decade, said they approved dozens of other pensions at the same December meeting without argument.

DeAvila-Silebi can still reclaim her contributions to the pension in a lump sum, he said. She can also appeal the vote to the court system.

Before serving in Passaic County, DeAvila-Silebi was the presiding judge for criminal cases in Bergen County from 2010 to 2015. She was nominated to the court in 2008 by Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, and nominated for tenure by Gov. Chris Christie. DeAvila-Silebi, of Waldwick, requested a transfer out of Superior Court in Hackensack because of an unspecified dispute with the former county prosecutor, John L. Molinelli.