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FATHER AND MOTHER SUBMITTED INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THEIR SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTIONS ON THE ISSUE WHETHER THE CHILDREN WERE CONSTRUCTIVELY EMANCIPATED; FATHER’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON HIS PETITION TO TERMINATE HIS CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS WAS PROPERLY DENIED BUT MOTHER’S PETITION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT DISMISSING FATHER’S PETITION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Family Court, determined father’s motion for summary judgment on his petition to terminate his child support obligations based on the children’s constructive emancipation was properly denied, and mother’s motion for summary judgment dismissing father’s petition should not have been granted. The basis for both rulings was the inadmissible evidence submitted by father and mother:

… [W]e conclude that the father did not meet his initial burden on his motion of establishing that their refusal to visit with him was unjustified … . Inasmuch as the father’s own submissions suggest that the subject children did not want to visit him due to their purported knowledge of the sex abuse allegations, his submissions failed to eliminate all material issues of fact … . Indeed, the father failed to establish that his behavior “was not a primary cause of the deterioration in his relationship with [the subject] children” … . Thus, we conclude that the court properly denied his motion.

We also conclude that the court should not have granted that part of the mother’s motion seeking summary judgment dismissing the petition. The court erred in relying on the unsworn letters from the subject children’s psychologist because they were not in admissible form … . Without the letters from the children’s psychologist, we conclude that the mother failed to meet her initial burden on her motion of establishing that the children were justified in abandoning the father by refusing to attend visitation. Like the father, the mother did not submit any admissible evidence establishing the reasons for the children’s decision not to visit the father. We therefore modify the amended order accordingly. Matter of Timothy M.M. v Doreen R., 2020 NY Slip Op 06886, Fourth Dept 11-20-20

 

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