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FAMILY COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE ORDERED THE PARTIES TO EQUALLY SHARE THE COSTS OF FATHER’S SUPERVISED VISITATION WITHOUT EVALUATING THE PARTIES’ FINANCES (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined Family Court properly found father had committed the family offense of harassment and properly ordered therapeutic supervised parental access for father. However, Family Court should not have order the parties to equally share the expense of supervised parental access without evaluating the parties’ ability  to pay:

The Family Court should not have directed the parties to equally share the costs of the father’s supervised parental access, without evaluating the parties’ “economic realities,” including the father’s ability to pay and the actual cost of each visit … . Accordingly, we remit the matter to the Family Court, Orange Country, for a hearing to resolve those issues, and a determination thereafter regarding the parties’ respective shares of the costs for the father’s supervised therapeutic parental access. Matter of Livesey v Gulick, 2021 NY Slip Op 03321, Second Dept 5-26-21

 

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