The Nassau County Department of Social Services filed amended child abuse and neglect petitions against the father on behalf of his children who was four years and two and one-half years old at the time. A New York Family Lawyer said the petitions alleged that on numerous and diverse occasions…
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Wife Defends Custody Issue Based on Husband’s Bizarre Behavior
A couple was married and had four children together. The husband left the marital residence and a divorce action was commenced the following month. A New York Family Lawyer said following a trial on the issues of equitable distribution, child support and maintenance, a memorandum decision was issued. Although the…
Child Removed by Protective Services Due to Parent’s Drug Use
A man is the biological father of a boy who was born in 1995. A New York Family Lawyer said the two have never lived together. Three weeks following his birth, the child was removed from his mother’s home by the Child Protective Services Unit of the County Department of…
Court Listens to Child’s Input in Custody Arrangement
A New York Family Lawyer said the former couple entered into a separation agreement by which the child’s custody was placed with the mother subject to visitation by the father. The Inferior Court incorporated the child custody agreement in its decree divorcing the parents at the suit of the mother.…
Court Decides Possible Termination of Parental Rights
A father was imprisoned and was ultimately sentenced to a determinate sentence of ten years upon his conviction for attempted robbery. While, the man was in prison his wife gave birth to their child. A New York Family Lawyer said in order of filiation declaring the father was then entered…
Social Services Seeks to Remove Child from Mother
A New York Family Lawyer said that in July 2007, the Nassau County Social Services (SS) filed petitions against the respondent , seeking the removal of her two children. On the same date, the respondent filed petitions seeking the return of her sons pursuant to FCA § 1028. A hearing…
Court Decides Child Visitation Battle
A New York Lawyer said in this Family case, an Appeal was filed by the nonparty-appellant from two orders of the Family Court, Suffolk County. By decision and order on motion, as amended, the Court (1) directed that residential custody of the subject child was to continue with the petitioner…
Father Seeks Custody in Light of Mentally ill Mother
Plaintiff father and defendant mother were married in 2004 and are the parents of a daughter (born in 2005). Within weeks of her birth, the couple began experiencing marital difficulties, stemming from the father’s growing concern about the mother’s mental health. In January 2006, when the child was just five…
Court Decides on Executor’s Accounting
A New York Family Lawyer said that, before the court is the first and final account of the Public Administrator of Nassau County for the estate of the decedent who died intestate, a resident of Great Neck, New York, on August 8, 2006. Letters of administration issued to the Public…
Mother Appeals Father’s Reduction in Child Support
In a child support proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act, the mother appeals from an order of the County Family Court which denied her objections to so much of an order of the same court, as, after a hearing, granted that branch of the father’s petition which was for a…