A New York Familly Lawyer said the couple was married and has seven children, one of whom is emancipated. The respondent husband, a physician, incorporated his successful plastic surgery practice as a subchapter corporation, for which he is the sole shareholder. The couple separated and a temporary order of custody…
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Court Discusses Doctrine of Equitable Estoppel
A New York Family Lawyer said the court has before it the petitioner’s objections to the order of Support Magistrate, dated March 7, 2007, dismissing the petition filed herein. A New York Child Support Lawyer said that, pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (Family Court Act Article 5-B),…
Court Relieves Law Guardian from their Duties
In this Order of protection case, the Law Guardian was relieved and new counsel assigned to represent the child’s interests. Respondent mother’s counsel asserts that during the fact-finding hearing, while the caseworker for the Administration for Children’s Services was testifying, the Law Guardian read a People/Us magazine under her desk…
Court Discusses Order for Protection
In an action for divorce, a New York Family Lawyer said the wife has made two applications for orders directing her husband to leave their marital home, to provide support and maintenance for her and to restrain him from removing furnishings, furniture and personal possessions from the residence. When the…
Defendant Appeals Order for Retroactive Child Support and Counsel Fees
In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, in which the parties entered into a stipulation of settlement in open court, the complainant appeals from an amended order of the Supreme Court which awarded the defendant counsel fees in the sum of $15,000 and directed that he pay retroactive…
Court Rules on Child Support Issue
Two years after a couple got married, their first child was born. After about four years of being married, the couple got divorced. Custody was given to the wife, and the court gave the father reasonable visitation rights. The wife got married again shortly after the divorce. She moved to…
Axe-Wielding Man Shot Outside Daycare
A man carrying an axe outside an in-home childcare facility in the community of Glenn Dale, in the District of Columbia area, was shot and killed by three police officers, authorities said. The incident happened just before 3 p.m., a Prince George’s County Police spokesman told a NY Family Lawyer.…