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Family Court Discusses Jurisdiction Issue

A New York Family Lawyer said the complainant husband seeks to modify a separation agreement entered into with his former wife. The defendant wife was granted child custody of their three minor children. The issue before the court is whether it has jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction…

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Court Discusses Scope of the Child Support Standards Act

A New York Family Lawyer said that this is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, entered January 8, 2003 in Tompkins County, which, inter alia, modified plaintiff’s child support obligations. The parties were married in December 1988 and are the parents of a son born in 1991.…

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Court Discusses Arbitration Award

Plaintiff having failed to demonstrate that she attempted to exhaust other, less drastic, remedies to enforce the pendente lite support order, she is not entitled to an order holding defendant in contempt. Defendant’s net worth statement indicates that he has assets within the jurisdiction available to satisfy his current obligations…

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Court Redetermines Child Support Order

The parties, married in 1978 and subsequently divorced, have been before in Court on three prior occasions stemming from petitioner’s January 1995 application for an upward modification of respondent’s weekly child support obligation for the parties’ two children, born in 1980 and 1983. A New York Family Lawyer said the…

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Court Decides Case Dealing with Child Support in Arrears

In a child support proceeding, the father appeals from an order of the Family Court, Westchester County, which denied his objections to so much of an order of the same court, as, after a hearing, granted those branches of the mother’s cross petition which were, in effect, for arrears of…

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Court Determines the Best Interests for the Child in Custody Dispute

The father, who is thirty-two (32) years of age, and the mother, who is thirty (30) years of age, were married in New York in May 2002. While married, the father worked as a first grade teacher and the mother worked as a mandarin interpreter. A New York Family Lawyer…

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Court Discusses Visitation Rights for Grandparents

Petitioner is the paternal grandfather of 2 infants. Respondent is the natural mother of the infants. The children’s father was killed in an accident. A New York Family Lawyer said the paternal grandfather has petitioned this court for an order directing child visitation with the infants. An amended petition was…

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