In this family case, a condemnation proceeding is the just compensation to be awarded to claimant, for the taking of several parcels of property located in Queens County. The condemnee, took title to the subject parcels on February 29, 1996, for the creation of a Park. The court viewed the…
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Court Rules on Child Neglect Proceeding
In a child neglect proceeding brought pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, the parties stipulated to have the Nassau County Department of Probation investigate the underlying circumstances relating to the alleged child neglect and to thereafter issue a report, including its recommendations. The parties further agreed to allow the…
Respondent Claims Family Court Lacks Jurisdiction
Mr. NK, respondent in a Family Court proceeding, petitions for a judgment under Article 78 of the CPLR prohibiting the Judges of the Family Court, of Nassau County, or any of them, from proceeding with a hearing on a complaint under Article 8 of the Family Court Act made by…
Court Decides Neglect Case
The Presentment Agency moves, pursuant to a motion for summary judgment, for an order adjudging an after-born child to be permanently neglected, upon the ground that the parents of the two older siblings of the after-born child have previously been adjudicated unable to provide proper and adequate care for them.…
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…
Mother Moves for Custody of Three of Her Children
Legal counsel said that recitation, as required by CPLR 2219(a), of the papers considered in the review of the cross motion of the Attorney for the Children seeking, inter alia an order granting the mother temporary child custody of the parties’ three younger children, and directing that the transcripts of…
CPLR 321 Covers Removal of Attorneys of Record in Family Law Proceedings
A notice of Motion/Order to Show Cause/ Petition/Cross Motion and This court is called upon to determine (1) whether the attorney for the defendant’s application to be relieved as attorney of record should be granted; (2) if the defendant’s applications brought pro se while still represented by counsel are properly…
Family Law Case as a Result of Tragedy
This family case arises out of the death of a decedent on August 25, 2003. Plaintiff, Administrator, husband of the decedent, brings this action for medical and psychiatric malpractice against a hospital and 3 doctors. The medical and psychiatric history of the decedent, a 51 year old married woman at…
Court Discussed Domestic Relations Law Article 3A
This is an appeal from an order of the Family Court of Ulster County, entered May 8, 1986, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law article 3A, for an order directing respondent to pay child support. Petitioner and respondent were married in 1950 and divorced…
Father Seeks Full Custody of Children
This is a contested matrimonial action before the Supreme Court of the State of New York. On 6 January 2010, the plaintiff, the husband moved by order to show cause and prayed for an order directing the return of their two children, A, age 7, and M, age 4, to…