Matter of Trejo v. Pavon, 2018-08382 The mother and father each petitioned for sole legal and residential custody of their child. Following a hearing that commenced in 2016 and continued until 2018, the Family Court denied the mother’s petition, granted the father’s petition, and awarded the mother unsupervised parental access. …
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Matter of Fitzsimmons v. Fitzsimmons, 2019-07672 The Family Court determined that it was in the best interests of the children for the mother to have sole residential custody. However, the attorneys for the children, in their briefs submitted to the Second Department, have brought new allegations since the order under…
Matter of Salim v. Freeman, 2021-05278 The mother moved to dismiss the father’s petition for child support on the ground that the Family Court lacked jurisdiction because there was a prior child support order that had been issued by a court in Virginia. The Support Magistrate granted the mother’s motion,…
Matter of Walker v. Sterkowicz-Walker, 2020-04894 The Family Court’s determination to grant the father’s petition to modify a prior order so as to award him sole legal and residential custody of the child has a sound and substantial basis in the record, including evidence that the mother subjected the child…
Matter of Bailey v. Ayoub, 2021-00238 The parties are the parents of a child together. In a 2018 order, the parties were awarded joint legal custody, the mother was awarded physical custody, and the father was awarded parental access. On May 1, 2020, the father petitioned to modify the 2018…
Yinuo Yin v. Xiao Feng Qiao, 2021-00733 The lower court properly denied that branch of the plaintiff’s motion which was for an award of pendente lite maintenance, without prejudice, since she failed to attach a statement of net worth to her motion papers (see 22 NYCRR 202.16[k][2]; Barton v. Barton,…
Fisch v. Davidson, 2021-00155 The Second Department reversed the Order of the Suffolk County Supreme Court which denied the defendant’s motion for change of venue of the divorce action from Suffolk County to New York County. Suffolk County was not a proper venue based on the parties’ residence. The defendant…
Matter of Nizen v. Jacobellis, 2021-06576 The Family Court properly denied the father’s objections to an order of a support magistrate on the ground of improper service. The father did not claim or bring forward evidence that he attempted to serve his objections upon the mother by any other means…
Matter of Petrushka v. Abizadeh, 2021-04373 The Family Court properly denied the father’s objections to the Support Magistrate’s order dated February 21, 2020, which granted the mother’s petition for a downward modification of her child support obligation. Contrary to the father’s argument, the record supported the Support Magistrate’s determination that…
