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Court Reverses Child Support for Non-Biological Child

In this case,a New York Family Lawyer said the Defendant moved for an order: (1) modifying the Judgment of Divorce to remove any reference to the Plaintiff’s Child as his child; (2) removing any and all obligations of defendant to pay child support for Plaintiff’s Child; (3) directing the Office…

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Court Decides Visitation Rights of Nonbiological Parent

The petitioner seeks visitation with the subject child, the biological child of the respondent. The petitioner and respondent married sometime after the child’s birth. A New York Family Lawyer said the child was born on November 17, 1997 and nearly two years later the petitioner executed an acknowledgment of paternity…

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Mother Accused of Neglecting Children

The natural parents, never married but lived together from 1967 to 1974, during which time three children were born. A New York Family Lawyer said that on 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…

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Court Decides Custody Arrangment

A husband seeks custody of their two children from his wife who surreptitiously left the conjugal home in New York and took the children to Virginia where the wife’s relatives all lived. During the trial, the husband and the wife testified. A New York Family Lawyer said the mother-in-law of…

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Court Considers Terminating Parental Rights

This is an appeal from an order of the Family Court, New York County, dismissing a petition brought by petitioner Hospital seeking (1) termination of the parental rights of respondent mother; (2) custody of the subject child; and (3) a declaration that the child was free for adoption, pursuant to…

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Stepfather Seeks to Adopt Child

A man and a woman fell in love in 1976. They moved in together for five years. And their relationship produced a daughter. During this time, the couple used and dealt drugs. Both of them were apprehended and charged with possession of controlled substances. A New York Family Lawyer said…

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Parent Seeks to Relocate Child

In this case, the parties were divorced by judgment dated February 13, 2003. The Appellant father appealed from the order of the Supreme Court, Queens County dated August 28, 2009, which granted the Respondent mother’s motion for permission to relocate to North Carolina with the parties’ child. A New York…

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