A New York Family Lawyer said this is a proceeding for support pursuant to Article 4 of the Family Court Act. The clerk of the court mailed a summons to the respondent, directing him to appear for a hearing. No attempt at personal or substituted service was made prior to…
In April 1979, the Grand Jury of Kings County found reasonable cause to believe that respondents herein had committed acts which, if done by a person over the age of sixteen (16), would constitute the crimes of petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, assault in…
A New York Family Lawyer said the respondent in a juvenile delinquency proceeding originated by removal to Family Court is not automatically entitled to inspect or to receive a copy of the minutes of any Grand Jury proceeding which must be transferred to Family Court when the case is removed.…
A New York Family Lawyer said this is a petition brought by an authorized agency under Social Services Law § 384-b[7] seeking to commit the guardianship and custody of the children, A (d.o.b. 1/14/91), B (d.o.b. 3/6/94), and C (d.o.b. 6/14/01) to the agency for the purpose of consenting to…
Two cases of similar nature have come before the court for resolution. A New York Family Lawyer said the first case is a child custody and visitation proceeding where the mother appeals from an order of the Family Court, Kings County, dated 20 May 2003 which granted those branches of…
On 22 September 2004, by order to show cause, plaintiff father moves for an order to modify the provisions of the parties’ judgment of divorce, dated 24 April 2002, so as to grant him full legal and residential custody of the child of the marriage, born January 1, 1997; appoint…
A New York Family Lawyer said the complainant husband seeks to modify a separation agreement entered into with his former wife. The defendant wife was granted child custody of their three minor children. The issue before the court is whether it has jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction…
A New York Family Lawyer said that this is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered January 8, 2003 in Tompkins County, which, inter alia, modified plaintiff’s child support obligations. The parties were married in December 1988 and are the parents of a son born in 1991.…
Plaintiff having failed to demonstrate that she attempted to exhaust other, less drastic, remedies to enforce the pendente lite support order, she is not entitled to an order holding defendant in contempt. Defendant’s net worth statement indicates that he has assets within the jurisdiction available to satisfy his current obligations…
The parties, married in 1978 and subsequently divorced, have been before in Court on three prior occasions stemming from petitioner’s January 1995 application for an upward modification of respondent’s weekly child support obligation for the parties’ two children, born in 1980 and 1983. A New York Family Lawyer said the…