Plaintiff seeks reimbursement for the cost of tuition for a foster child, pursuant to Education Law section 3202(5)(a) which provides for the distribution of the cost of educating indigent children among the school districts of this state. This child’s mother, was confined to the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility at…
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Court Decides Custody in Light of Sexual Abuse Allegations
Following an 11-day hearing, Family Court, by order entered September 15, 2005, awarded respondent wife sole legal and physical custody of the parties’ minor child, D (born in 2000), and established a visitation schedule for petitioner. Family Court did so with great hesitation, noting respondent’s marked weaknesses as a…
Court Discusses Petition for Tax Exemption
The Plaintiff, claims that it is entitled to a real property tax exemption pursuant to Real Property Tax Law [“R.P.T.L.”] §§ 420(a),(b)1 and 4622 for the years 2004 and 2005 for its property located at 32 College Road, Monsey, New York within the Town of Ramapo. The trial of…
Plaintiff Brings Child Custody Proceeding
In a child protective proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, the Law Guardian appeals from so much of an order of the Family Court, Westchester County, entered January 5, 1989, as granted those branches of the father’s motion which were to compel the production of his daughter…
Petitioner Challenges Three Rulings from Dept. of Social Services
In this Article 78 family proceeding, Petitioners challenge three determinations of the Nassau County Department of Social Services. On the first issue, the emergency assistance was denied to replace clothing of the petitioners’ four children, which was destroyed by parasitic pinworms. As pertinent to this proceeding, Social Services Law…
Father Moves for Custody in Light of Mentally Ill Mother
A New York Family Lawyer said this is an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court entered 28 April 2009 in Ulster County, which, among other things, awarded plaintiff custody of the parties’ child. The father, plaintiff and the mother, defendant were married in 2004 and are the parents…
Husband Claims Aandonment and Adultery in Divorce Proceeding
A New York Family Lawyer said the parties were spouses who have two children of the marriage. From the date of the parties’ marriage until August 2002, the parties and their two children resided in Eastchester, in Westchester County with the wife’s mother in a residence owned by the wife’s…
Grandmother Seeks Visitation Rights
A New York Family Lawyer said a grandmother seeks to obtain visitation privileges with her grandson. The child was born and resided with the complainant, his maternal grandmother, for five years. The child’s father is in prison, and his mother, who was addicted to drugs, already died. Previously, a dispute…
Petitioner Brings Motion to Consolidate Two Separate Divorce Actions
A New York Family Lawyer said that on 20 September 1969, petitioner and respondent were married in Cooperstown, New York. After residing in a trailer park in Sodus, New York, they bought a house and settled in Williamson, New York. Out of the marriage, four children were born- A and…
Court Examines Jurisdiction Issue in Custody Proceeding
A New York Family Lawyer said this is a related child custody and visitation proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 6 wherein the mother, A, appeals, as limited by her brief, from an order of the Family Court Nassau County dated 10 March 2010, declining jurisdiction over the matter…