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FAMILY COURT IMPROPERLY DELEGATED TO FATHER THE COURT’S AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE MOTHER’S ACCESS TO THE CHILD (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing (modifying) Family Court, determined father should not have been given the power to suspend mother’s access to the child:

… [T]he Family Court erred in including two provisions in the order appealed from that effectively allow the father to determine whether parental access with the mother should be suspended. These provisions do not appear to give the mother the opportunity to judicially challenge the father’s determinations concerning her compliance with the Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS) program or whether she had unsupervised parental access with the child … , and, consequently, constitute an improper delegation of authority by the Family Court to the father to determine when the child can have parental access time with the mother … . Matter of Felgueiras v Cabral, 2022 NY Slip Op 02410, Second Dept 4-13-22

Practice Point: Here Family Court should not have allowed father to control mother’s access to the child—an improper delegation of the court’s authority.

 

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