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IN DISMISSING FATHER’S PETITION AND GRANTING MOTHER’S MOTION TO TERMINATE HER CHILD SUPPORT, FAMILY COURT RELIED ON HEARSAY AND EVIDENCE NOT TESTED BY CROSS-EXAMINATION, MATTER SENT BACK FOR A HEARING ON FATHER’S PETITION TO MODIFY CHILD SUPPORT (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Family Court, determined father’s petition for modification of child support should not have been denied and mother’s motion to terminate her child support obligations should not have been granted based on hearsay and evidence not tested by cross-examination:

… [F]ather filed a petition to modify the child support order … . The father asserted, as a change of circumstance, that the child was living with him. The mother moved for summary judgment dismissing the father’s petition, and for termination of her child support obligation, on the ground of parental alienation, contending that the father had unjustifiably frustrated and interfered with her relationship with the child. * * *

The Family Court, in making its determination that the father alienated the child from the mother, improperly relied on inadmissible information that had been provided at court conferences in earlier proceedings before a different judge. The court also improperly relied on hearsay statements and conclusions by an expert, whose credibility was not tested by either party, from an earlier forensic evaluation, and on statements and conclusions by two therapists, whose opinions and credibility were not tested by either party, made at a conference before a different judge … .

Accordingly, we disagree with the Family Court’s determination to grant the mother’s motion for summary judgment and for termination of her child support obligation, we reinstate the father’s petition to modify the child support order … , and we remit the matter to the Family Court … for a hearing on that petition. Matter of McNichol v Reid, 2019 NY Slip Op 07073, Second Dept 10-2-19

 

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