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Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this was an appeal of an order granting Petitioner Mother’s (hereafter Mother) application to modify a prior order of custody.  In this prior order, sole custody of the children was granted to the Respondent Father (hereafter Father) with visitation to...

An appeal from an order awarding sole custody of the parties’ two children to Petitioner Father, with liberal visitation to the Mother.  The Mother asserted that the Family Court erred in its determination because it failed to appoint separate counsel for the children when the parties’ son expr...

Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this appeal is from an order which denied the Plaintiff’s motion seeking a determination that he is entitled to $143,000.00 from the sale of the marital residence located in Indiana.  The Plaintiff claims he was entitled to the sum because it was a contrib...

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...