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Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this was the appeal of an order of the Family Court should award sole custody to a nonparent.  Appellant Mother brought the appeal on the grounds the Family Court erred in making its decision by failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine whether ...

Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this appeal was from an order of the Supreme Court which granted Defendant Wife’s motion for an order directing Plaintiff Husband to pay child support arrears and counsel fees. An oral stipulation of settlement was entered into by the parties in December 19...

An appeal of an order of the Family Court awarding Petitioner Aunt sole legal and physical custody of Respondent Parent’s children, with visitation to the respondents (the mother’s visitation to be supervised).  Petitioner brought the underlying petition to modify two existing custody orders wh...

Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this was the appeal of an order awarding defendant wife “a 35% interest in plaintiff husband’s corporate stock shares…and awarded maintenance in the amount of $7,500 per month until the earliest of either party’s death, the wife’s remarriage, or Dec...

An order of the Supreme Court denying Plaintiff’s motion for the modification of custody and enforcement of child support as outlined by the parties’ stipulation of settlement was appealed by Plaintiff. Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said the Appellate Division affirmed the lower court’s ...

Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this appeal results from the judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County.  The Court declined to “award the Defendant spousal maintenance,” declined to award the Defendant child support, found the subject children, then age 20, and age 17, were emancipa...

Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this appeal involves a custody arrangement modification for the youngest of the parties’ three children.  The original custody arrangement provided for joint custody of the subject child with equal parenting time.  However, several incidents involving the...

Long Island Best Divorce Lawyer said this appeal was the result of an upward modification of a child support order.  Appellant father appealed an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County which denied his objections to an order granting Respondent mother’s petition for an upward modification of f...

Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this appeal stems from an order of the Family Court granting petitioner’s (hereafter father) petition for modification of a child custody arrangement.  The Family Court modified the existing child custody arrangement and granted the father primary physical...

A Suffolk County Divorce Lawyer said this appeal concerns a determination of the Family Court directing the father to pay 35% of the college loan expenses for the parties’ daughter.  However, the mother appeals as the lower court only directed the father to pay 35% of the college loan expenses fo...