JUNE 8, 2022 DECISIONS

Matter of Thomas v. Mobley, 2020-06449 In 2015, the parties agreed to an Order which awarded them joint custody of their child, with residential custody to the mother, and parenting time to the father, and a restriction that neither party may relocate the child...

MAY 11, 2022 DECISIONS

Matter of Englert v. Hilton, 2021-01424 the father appealed from a Family Court order, dated December 14, 2020,  made without a hearing, that dismissed his petition to modify a prior order dated December 17, 2017, made on consent of the parties, so as to extend his...

APRIL 20, 2022 DECISIONS

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...

APRIL 13, 2022 DECISIONS

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...

March 25, 2020 Decisions

Order Dismissing Nonparent Custody Petitions Reversed; Mother’s Boyfriend and Maternal Grandfather Proved Extraordinary Circumstances Sufficient for Standing Moynihan v. Cohen, Cohen v. Moynihan, Krasnoff v. Cohen, 2019-03088 The mother and the father, Alexander Roy...