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Court Discusses Excessive Corporal Punishment

Respondent is the mother of the two subject children, the son, born April 30, 1994 and the daughter, born March 28, 2001. A New York Family Lawyer said Respondent also has an older daughter, currently a third year student at, visits the home on some weekends and during school vacations.…

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Court Investigates Allegations of Child Abuse

Plaintiffs are the surviving children of the late deceased, whose live-in boyfriend killed her and her daughter, in 1993. At the time of the murders, defendant was investigating plaintiffs’ home. A New York Family Lawyer said that, the Family Court had ordered the investigation after the children’s paternal grandmother alleged…

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Court Hears Child Protective Proceeding

This child protective proceeding was commenced on June 17, 1983, pursuant to Family Court Act, Art. 10. A Bronx Order of Protection Lawyer said that, the neglect petition was filed one week after the police had responded to a neighbor’s call of a child beating, whereupon it was ascertained that…

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Court Decides Womens Earnings Not Relevant to Man’s Obligation for Child Support

A couple in this proceeding was duly married and became the parents of two children. They lived as a family in New York City continuously until September of 1948. In 1950, the man went to Nevada and marries another woman, following a typical Nevada divorce mill constructive service default order.…

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Court Alters Child Visitation Schedule

In a proceeding to determine child custody pursuant to Family Court Act, in which the mother cross-petitioned for modification of an order of the Bronx County Family Court, granting the father child custody of his daughter, the father appeals from a dispositional order of the Nassau County Family Court, which,…

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Mother Seeks to Modify Custody Arrangement

This action arises out of a previously child custody case. A New York Family Lawyer said the parties were married and divorced by a decision which incorporated the condition of settlement placed on the record in open court. The condition and decision of separation provided that the parties should share…

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Court Decides Whether to Consolidate Cases

In this case, a New York Family Lawyer said the Plaintiff husband moved to consolidate a Family Court proceeding, wherein he and his mother were charged with abuse and neglect of the parties youngest daughter, into this divorce case which is already at the postjudgment stage. Defendant wife and the…

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Court Reverses Child Support for Non-Biological Child

In this case,a New York Family Lawyer said the Defendant moved for an order: (1) modifying the Judgment of Divorce to remove any reference to the Plaintiff’s Child as his child; (2) removing any and all obligations of defendant to pay child support for Plaintiff’s Child; (3) directing the Office…

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Court Decides Visitation Rights of Nonbiological Parent

The petitioner seeks visitation with the subject child, the biological child of the respondent. The petitioner and respondent married sometime after the child’s birth. A New York Family Lawyer said the child was born on November 17, 1997 and nearly two years later the petitioner executed an acknowledgment of paternity…

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