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FAMILY COURT DID NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO CONDITION VISITATION UPON FATHER’S PARTICIPATION IN MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING; THEREFORE FATHER’S PETITION TO MODIFY CUSTODY AND VISITATION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED ON THE GROUND THAT ORDER HAD BEEN VIOLATED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Family Court, determined the motion to dismiss father’s petition to modify custody and visitation shoud not have been granted. The motion to dismiss argued father had not complied with the court’s order conditioning visitation on participation in mental health counseling. The court did not have the authority to issue that order:

… [A]lthough a court may include a directive to obtain counseling as a component of a custody or visitation order, the court does not have the authority to order such counseling as a prerequisite to custody or visitation” … . Family Court therefore “lacked the authority to condition any future application for modification of [the father’s] visitation on [his] participation in mental health counseling” … . Matter of Lane v Rawleigh, 2020 NY Slip Op 06926, Fourth Dept 11-20-20

 

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