Perhaps the court took this step, as the petitioner was pro se.MATTER OF JW, 2025 NY Slip Op 25048 – NY: King Co. City Court, Civil Court 2025:”This Honorable Court Decides and Orders Sua Sponte, upon
Application of Petitioner JW identified as non-binary seeking
Declaratory Judgment for Name Change and Sex Designation to X, pursuant
MATTER OF JOHN M. v. REBECCA L., 2025 NY Slip Op 158 – NY: Appellate Div., 1st Dept. 2025:”In this article 81 proceeding, petitioner moved below to revoke the
marriage between the incapacitated person John M. and appellant Helen E.
It is well established that marriage is a contract, and pursuant to
Mental Hygiene Law
Here is change in NY child welfare law that was just issued last week. There are two sides to this argument, as noted in the dissent, as to the issue of “special duty of care”.WEISBROD-MOORE v. CAYUGA COUNTY, 2025 NY Slip Op 903 – NY: Court of Appeals 2025:”TROUTMAN, J.
Today we hold that municipalities
In this case, after the domestic violence incident, child welfare only brought the abuse and neglect case against the abusive father but still wanted the victim mother involved with them MATTER OF SAPPHIRE W., 2025 NY Slip Op 662 – NY: Appellate Div., 2nd Dept. 2025:”VENTURA, J.
APPEAL by the nonrespondent mother, in a proceeding pursuant
The assumption is that the father was asking for the court to pay for this expert assessment and further ask that it be dispositive.MATTER OF ZV, 2025 NY Slip Op 50100 – NY Co. Family Court 2025:YAEL WILKOFSKY, J.”On or about May 31, 2024, the petitioner Administration for
Children’s Services (“ACS”) filed a Family Court
NEW YORK—Chief Administrative Judge Joseph A. Zayas and First Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Norman St. George today announced the statewide rollout of the court system’s Uncontested Joint Divorce program, which will ease the divorce process for many New Yorkers. In an uncontested joint divorce, both parties agree to end the marriage and on what will
“MATTER OF ELINA M., 2024 NY Slip Op 6574 – NY: Appellate Div., 2nd Dept. 2024:VOUTSINAS, J.APPEAL by the father, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act
article 10, from an order of disposition of the Family Court, Kings
County (Ilana Gruebel, J.), dated June 27, 2023, and entered in Kings
County. The order
JM v. GV, 2025 NY Slip Op 25004 – NY King Co. Supreme Court 2025:”….Full Presumptive Maintenance CalculationsParties are entitled to opt-out of the post-divorce maintenance
computational formula established in Domestic Relations Law § 236
provided that the parties comply with Domestic Relations Law §
236(B)(3). Domestic Relations Law § 236(B)(3) states that:”An
This decision highlights the main issues that come up in a pendente lite hearing.KO v. MO, 2024 NY Slip Op 51754 – Kings Co. NY Supreme Court 2024:”JEFFREY S. SUNSHINE, J.
The parties were married in June 2013. The plaintiff-mother commenced
this action for divorce by filing a summons with notice on January 12,
2023,
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