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Evidence Did Not Support Imposition of Supervised Visitation Re: Mother’s Older Children—Evidence Included Family Court’s Taking Judicial Notice of Neglect Findings Re: Mother’s Younger Children

The Third Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Egan, determined Family Court’s imposition of supervised visitation between mother and her two older children was not supported by the evidence—evidence which included Family Court’s taking judicial notice of the neglect proceedings involving mother’s younger children:

As for the grounds upon which Family Court elected to impose supervised visitation, although Family Court indeed was entitled to take judicial notice of the three neglect proceedings brought against the mother with respect to [the older children’s] maternal half siblings, two of the three proceedings predated the 2011 custody order wherein Family Court — following a hearing — granted the mother (unsupervised) visitation with [the older children]. Additionally, nothing in the record suggests that derivative findings of neglect were sought with respect to [the older children] in any of the neglect proceedings brought against the mother. To the extent that Family Court further relied upon the mother’s allegedly unaddressed mental health and anger management issues, as well as her purported lack of stable housing, these conclusory and unsubstantiated hearsay statements — taken verbatim from the permanency hearing report prepared by one of petitioner’s caseworkers — are not, to our analysis, the type of evidence that may be invoked to significantly curtail the mother’s preexisting visitation rights with [the older children]. Finally, the sole witness to testify at the combined hearing was the mother, who detailed her visitation history with [the older children], revealed that she regularly exercised her visitation rights and indicated that such visits generally went well. Although the mother acknowledged that she and her teenage children did not always see eye to eye, the record as a whole fails to establish that affording the mother unsupervised visitation with [the older children] — who were 16 years old and 15 years old, respectively, at the time of the hearing — “would be inimical to the child[ren]’s welfare” … . Matter of Damian D…, 2015 NY Slip Op 00263, 3rd Dept 1-8-15

 

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