2017 NY Slip Op 02623 April 5, 2017 Decision The plaintiff appeals a decision from the Duchess City Supreme Court. The plaintiff filed a motion to hold the other party in civil contempt (for violating part of the separation agreement), which was made part of the order for divorce dated…
2017 NY Slip Op 02776 Decision The defendant appeals portions of a divorce judgment that was decided in the Suffolk County Supreme Court. After a nonjury trial, the court said that 100% of Highland Terrace land be distributed to the plaintiff. The defendant should receive $250,000 for his interest in…
2017 NY Slip Op 01343 February 22, 2017 Decision This is an appeal and cross-appeal from an order entered into by the Nassau County Supreme Court from 3/17/15. The order denies a cross motion of the defendant for summary judgment and found that the plaintiff had waived the right to…
2017 Slip Op 01676 Decision This is an appeal, filed in Queens County, by the plaintiff from an Order to Show Cause. The OSC granted the defendants application to restrain the plaintiff from transferring their minor child from a school in Queens to a school in Nassau County. The court…
NY Slip Op 01851 March 15, 2017 Decision The father appeals a family court order from Queens Family Court dated 1/21/16. The order denies the father’s petition to enforce a visitation stipulation, modify custody provisions, ad alleged that the mother is in contempt for failing to comply with the provisions.…
2017 NY Slip Op 01537 March 1, 2017 Decision This is an appeal filed by the defendant, taking issue with certain portions of a judgement for divorce that was filed on June 23, 2014 in Supreme Court, Orange County. The court granted the plaintiff 100% of the marital property, located…
This private placement adoption action presents a number of intertwined legal issues that highlight the shortcomings of the private placement adoption statutes in New York State. The infant who is the subject of the case has now been in the home of the petitioners since February 21, 1998 without the…
2017 Slip Op. 01705 Decision This is an appeal for parts of the judgment of divorce from Nassau County Superior Court. The decision failed to award maintenance fees to the plaintiff, but did award the plaintiff’s counsel the amount of $87,000. This court affirms that judgment. The appellant and appellee…
This case involves the enforcement of a sister-state divorce judgment, with respect to arrears in alimony and support payments, pursuant to the ‘Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act’ (article 54 of the CPLR) brought before the Supreme Court, Special Term. Sometime in Junuary 1973, the plaintiff-wife commenced an action for…
2017 NY Slip Op 01529 March 1, 2017 The appellate court affirms the judgment. The plaintiff filed for divorce after 11 years of marriage in 2010. They had two children between them. In 2012, the parties stipulated that the plaintiff would have sole custody of the children, and the defendant…