A New York Family Lawyer said that, on May 30, 2006, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) filed a motion pursuant to Family Court Act § 1039-b for entry of an order that finds that reasonable efforts to return the subject child to respondent mother are not required, because the…
This proceeding was brought by the petitioner under subdivision 1 of section 332 of the Election Law to cancel the enrollment of the respondent as a member of the Democratic party of the county of Kings. A New York Family Lawyer said that the petition alleges that respondent in a…
In this case, the defendant stands convicted of murder in the first degree upon an indictment which charges that the defendant willfully, feloniously and of malice aforethought poisoned the deceased, by giving and administered to her a quantity of poison, to wit, strychnine, and as a result of said poisoning…
In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, as, after a hearing, denied her cross petition to modify a prior custody order, by permitting her to relocate with…
A New York Family Lawyer said the plaintiff commenced this action to foreclose a mortgage given by defendant Realty Corporation, to secure a promissory note of the same date in the amount of $1,450,000.00 executed by defendant borrower in favor of a Savings Bank. The note was further secured by…
A New York Family Lawyer said an agency filed an appeal charging a man committed an act which if committed by an adult would constitute the crime of promoting contraband in the second degree. A fact-finding hearing was commenced. A community associate, a director, and a probation officer testified. A…
A New York Family Lawyer said the issue presented is whether the Family Court has jurisdiction to commit a juvenile to the Department of Mental Hygiene if it is alleged that the juvenile is a delinquent in a situation where, prior to being adjudicated pursuant to the Family Court Act,…
A New York Family Lawyer said a fifteen-year old boy has petitioned the Supreme Court to prohibit the judges of the Family Court from reopening a fact-finding hearing by which he may be adjudged a juvenile delinquent, on the grounds that he will thereby be subjected to double jeopardy in…
A New York Family Lawyer said that, in this Article 78 proceeding the petitioner, a boy 15 years of age, seeks an order prohibiting the respondent, Judges of the Family Court of the County of Kings, from re-conducting a fact-finding hearing upon the ground that to do so would place…
A New York Family Lawyer said that, based upon the foregoing papers, defendant (Father) moves for a suspension and downward modification of his child support obligations on the ground that plaintiff (Mother) allegedly has refused his visitation with the parties’ daughter, has removed the child to another jurisdiction without court…