Divorce proceedings often involve disputes that extend beyond financial and custodial issues, sometimes requiring courts to address matters like communication and speech. In a case decided by the Supreme Court of Westchester County, the court reviewed restrictions on the defendant’s communication with employees of the plaintiff’s employer and on both…
Articles Posted in Westchester County
Court addressed maintenance, child support, and reimbursement disputes in a high-income divorce case. Tuchman v. Tuchman, 201 A.D.3d 986 (N.Y. App. Div. 2022)
This case involved a divorce and related financial matters, including maintenance, child support, and equitable distribution. The Supreme Court, Westchester County, addressed disputes over payments, income allocation, and financial obligations between the parties. Both the plaintiff and the defendant challenged various aspects of the court’s rulings. Background Facts The plaintiff…
Court Hears Disturbing Neglect Proceeding
In a neglect proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act. Article 10, the maternal grandmother appeals from an order of the Family Court, Kings County, dated April 7, 2009, which suspended her visitation with the subject child and directed the Administration for Children’s Services to instruct the subject child’s school not…
Court Decides if Children Should Remain in Foster Care
The question presented by the instant case is whether the evidence adduced on NYCCS’s direct case at the combined Family Court Act § 1027 hearing, for the child DD, and Family Court Act § 1028 hearing, for the children JJ and BB, establishes imminent risk sufficient to warrant the children…
Mother Appeals Ruling Terminating Her Parental Rights
This is a motion brought before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department, by the respondent on appeals from two orders of fact-finding and disposition of the Family Court, Kings County, (one as to each child), both dated 9 June 2006, inter…
Father Files for Modification of Custody Order
The petitioner and respondent are the parents of a nine (9) year old child. The parties obtained a judgment of divorce in New Jersey on June 13, 2003 and, on consent, were awarded an order of joint legal custody for the child. A Kings County Family Lawyer said that the…
Stepdaughter Files Claim for Aggravated Harrassment
The information dated March 28, 1968, charges the crime of Aggravated Harassment in violation of section 240.30, subdivision 2 of the Penal Law. The complaint is made and sworn to by ERG, who is defendant’s step-daughter. Pursuant to the information, a summons for purposes of investigation was issued and…
Court Decides Whether an Assault Charge is Considered a Family Offense
This misdemeanor information alleging the perpetration of an assault third by one Susan O’Toole and another upon the person of one Cathy O’Toole was transferred to the Family Court by the District Court, the County of Suffolk: First District. Briefly stated, the facts are as follows: Cathy O’Toole went…
Court Discusses Problems With Trust Language
After providing for a number of bequests, legacies and trusts in various articles of her last will and testament, Maude S. W. McKay, the decedent, disposed of the residue of her estate in the following language ‘TENTH:–All the rest, residue and remainder of my Estate, both real and personal,…
Wife Brings De Novo Hearing Regarding Support
The family case at bar involves a petition for support filed pursuant to the Florida Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Law. The petitioner-wife seeks a de novo hearing relative to support for the two children of the parties’ marriage as well as support for herself. Respondent-husband, a Suffolk County…