In a child support proceeding, the father appeals from an order of the Family Court which denied his objections to two orders of the same court which awarded the petitioner with child support based on a determination of his gross income and counsel fee. A New York Family Lawyer said…
Articles Posted in Custody
Court Discussed the Need for Injured Father to Have a Legal Guardian
A New York Family Lawyer said a couple obtained a divorced pursuant to a decision of the court. In addition, the condition also ordered that the father was obligated to keep and maintain hospital and medical insurance coverage, or better coverage, for the benefit of the children, as long as…
Ex-Wife Seeks to Increase Child Support
In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by a judgment, the defendant former husband appeals (1) as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, as, after a hearing, and upon a prior order of the same court, entered,…
Petitioner Seeks Enforcement of Child Support Order
In a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act § 467(b), for enforcement of the alimony and child support provisions of a judgment of divorce of the Supreme Court, the ex-husband appeals from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County, which rejected his objections to a Hearing Examiner’s order, which,…
Court Decides if Temporary Order for Protection in Merited
Defendant and complainant are husband and wife. Immediately prior to his arrest, defendant and his wife were staying in separate cooperative apartments, each jointly owned by them, in the same apartment building in Manhattan. The larger of the two apartments was the couple’s marital home, while the smaller served as…
Court Discusses a Conversion Divorce Proceeding
In a divorce action, the plaintiff wife appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, which granted the defendant husband’s counterclaim for a conversion divorce and awarded custody of the parties’ infant children, visitation, child support and occupancy of the marital residence pursuant to the terms of a…
Court Decides Modification of Child Support Issue
In a child support modification proceedings under the Family Court Act, a wife seeks an order of the Court modifying upwards the child support provisions of a December 1973 divorce decree entered between the parties, which provisions were adopted and made part of an enforcement order entered in Court on…
Petitioner Accused of Misrepresenting Income
A proceeding was commenced pursuant to Criminal Procedure Laws and Rule (CPLR) to review a determination of the respondent Government Agency dated May 15, 1978 and made after a statutory fair hearing, which affirmed a determination of the local agency that the petitioner mother had willfully withheld information as to…
Father Appeals Child Support and Custody Order
In an action, inter alia, for awards of child custody and child support, the plaintiff father appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, dated October 25, 2007, as, in effect, granted that branch of the defendant mother’s cross motion…
Father Appeals Child Support Order
In a child support proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 4, the father appeals from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County, dated November 4, 1999, which, in effect, confirmed a determination of the same court, dated September 13, 1999, that he had willfully failed to obey an…