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Mother Challenges Custody Arrangment

A New York Family Lawyer said the parties in this matter initiated a stipulation of settlement which was so ordered by the court. The stipulation provides that it will survive and shall not merge into any decision of divorce. A New York Custody Lawyer said that also provides for joint…

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Mother Files Looking to Enforce and Modify Child Support Obligations

A New York Family Lawyer said a couple entered into a separation agreement and it was recited. The parties were aware of the condition of the child support law and their respective rights and obligations. However, they agreed to depart from the child support guidelines, noting that the mother was…

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Court Decides Case in Light of Domestic Relations Law 76

A New York Family Lawyer said this is a visitation proceeding from which a father appeals from an order of the Family Court, Kings County dismissing his petition for visitation on the ground of lack of jurisdiction. According to his petition and hearing testimony, he and his wife were divorced…

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Court Looks at Jursidiction in Paternity Suit

A New York Family Lawyer said the issue presented to the court is an interpretation of Section 521 of the Family Court Act, which states that whether the Family Court has jurisdiction when a non-resident petitioner child institutes a paternity proceeding against an alleged non-resident, who is found within a…

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Mother’s Failure to Appear Results in Custody being Awarded to the Father

A couple entered into a stipulation after their divorce. As per the terms, the mother had the sole custody of their two children and the father had certain rights of visitation. A New York Family Lawyer said tne provision was that the mother could not relocate outside of a fifty…

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Court Decides Interstate Custody Dispute

This is an application by the defendant husband to modify a judgment of divorce in order to grant him child custody of his two daughters. A New York Family Lawyer said the divorce decree awarded custody of the children to the wife based upon a separation agreement which was incorporated…

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Father Contends Court Made an Error in Child Support Calculation

A New York Family Lawyer said that, in a child support proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 4, the father appeals from an order of the Family Court, Westchester County, entered September 10, 2007, which granted his objections to so much of an order of the same court entered…

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Court Hears Child Support and Custody Case

The instant case arises from an award of child support entered after an inquest, upon the appellant’s default in appearing at the hearing. A New York Family Lawyer said the appellant alleges he became sick immediately prior to the commencement of a support hearing in February 1990 and asked his…

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Court Discusses Cost of Living Adjustment

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 9, 2009, which denied his objections to an order of the same court, dated September 24, 2009, which, upon treating his letter dated June…

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