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FATHER’S PETITION TO MODIFY THE VISITATION ORDER, WHICH ALLOWED VISITATION AS MUTUALLY AGREED, SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DENIED WITHOUT A HEARING, FATHER ALLEGED THE MUTUALLY AGREED VISITATION HAD BECOME UNTENABLE (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department determined father’s motion to modify visitation should not have been denied without a hearing. The existing order allowed father visitation under mutually agreed circumstance. Father alleged mother had prohibited visitation for three years:

Although “[a] court cannot delegate its authority to determine visitation to either a parent or a child” … , it may order visitation as the parties may mutually agree so long as such an arrangement is not untenable under the circumstances … . Where, as here, a prior order provides for visitation as the parties may mutually agree, a party who is unable to obtain visitation pursuant to that order “may file a petition seeking to enforce or modify the order” … .

We agree with the father that the court erred in dismissing the modification petition without a hearing inasmuch as the father made “a sufficient evidentiary showing of a change in circumstances to require a hearing”… . Contrary to the mother’s contention, upon giving the petition a liberal construction, accepting the facts alleged therein as true, and according the father the benefit of every favorable inference… , we conclude that the father adequately alleged a change of circumstances insofar as the visitation arrangement based upon mutual agreement was no longer tenable given that the mother purportedly denied the father any contact with the child … . In addition, we note that, although the father is now incarcerated, there is a rebuttable presumption that visitation is in the child’s best interests … . Matter of Kelley v Fifield, 2018 NY Slip Op 02110, Fourth Dept 3-23-18

FAMILY LAW (VISITATION, FATHER’S PETITION TO MODIFY THE VISITATION ORDER, WHICH ALLOWED VISITATION AS MUTUALLY AGREED, SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DENIED WITHOUT A HEARING, FATHER ALLEGED THE MUTUALLY AGREED VISITATION HAD BECOME UNTENABLE (FOURTH DEPT))/VISITATION (FAMILY LAW, MODIFICATION OF MUTUALLY AGREED VISITATION, FATHER’S PETITION TO MODIFY THE VISITATION ORDER, WHICH ALLOWED VISITATION AS MUTUALLY AGREED, SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DENIED WITHOUT A HEARING, FATHER ALLEGED THE MUTUALLY AGREED VISITATION HAD BECOME UNTENABLE (FOURTH DEPT))

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