Prior to the incident, infant plaintiff’s father was known to the defendant’s police officers at the 43rd Precinct, having previously been arrested by them approximately six times for drunkenness, abusive and physical assault upon his family. In July, 1975 he assaulted his wife with a knife, inflicting lacerations which required…
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Court Decides Visitation Rights of Incarcerated Parents
The children in question were placed in petitioner’s foster care. A New York Family Lawyer said the birth mother’s drug use was the catalyst for the placement. Her whereabouts are unknown and she was not present at any of the Family Court proceedings. Respondent is the father of the children.…
Court Decides Whether to Terminate Parental Rights
The natural parents, never married but lived together from 1967 to 1974, during which time three children were born. In August 1974, after many earlier criminal convictions, the natural father was convicted on drug charges and sentenced to prison for a two-year-to life sentence.A New York Family Lawyer said in…
Children Placed in Foster Care
A woman who was high on drugs found herself married to a man she hardly knew. She never lived with that man she married and she never even had sexual relations with him to her knowledge. A New York Family Lawyer he tried to divorce him in the days that…
Court Maintains that Modification of Custody Must Benefit the Child
On 1 September 2009, a Family Court in Kings County issued an order which, after a hearing, in effect, granted the father’s petition to modify a prior custody order of the same court dated 3 August 2004, so as to award him sole legal and physical custody of the subject…
Court Says to Alter Existing Custody Arrangment there Must be a Change of Material Circumstances
In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by a judgment, the complainant husband appeals from the decision and filed an instant action for a divorce and ancillary relief against his wife. Prior to the entry of the divorce decision, the husband and wife entered into a duly…
Responded Taken into Custody Child Removed from Home
Respondent is the mother of the two subject children, a boy and a girl. Respondent also has an older daughter, currently a third year student, visits the home on some weekends and during school vacations. A New York Custody Lawyer said that in February 2008, respondent was arrested and the…
Defendant Contends He Received an Unfair Trial
Upon the notice of motion dated July 2, 2010, defendant moves via his attorney for an order pursuant to Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) sections 440.10(1)(H) and 440.20 to vacate the within conviction and to have his sentence therewith set aside. A New York Family Lawyer said defendant argues that his…
Child Perishes Due to Neglect and Abuse
CC, born on 1 June 1984, was removed from the care of her parents, A and B, on 11 July 1984 and placed in foster care by the Nassau County Department of Social Services pursuant to Family Court Act § 1024. On 12 July 1984, the Department of Social Services…
Court Determines Improper Use of Separation Agreement
This case is being held in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in Richmond County. The plaintiff of the case is P.B. and the defendant is L.B. The defendant wife has filed a motion for dismissal of the plaintiff’s action for divorce. Case Background A New York…