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FAMILY COURT, SUA SPONTE, SHOULD NOT HAVE DISMISSED INCARCERATED FATHER’S PETITION ALLEGING MOTHER’S NONCOMPLIANCE WITH AN ORDER MANDATING COMMUNICATION WITH THE CHILD WITHOUT HOLDING A HEARING (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing Family Court, should not have, sua sponte, dismissed, without a hearing, father’s petition alleging mother’s noncompliance with provisions of an order requiring communication between child and father, who is incarcerated:

Where, as here, a petition sets forth facts of willful noncompliance which, if established at a hearing would provide a basis for the relief sought, Family Court must afford the petitioner an opportunity to be heard … . The father alleged that he is being denied his routine monthly phone call, as well as calls at Christmas and the child’s birthday, as required by the consent order. Accepting the representations from counsel for the mother and the attorney for the child that missed calls were made up and that the child no longer wishes to communicate with the father and chooses not to respond to his correspondence, Family Court concluded that there were no contested facts and dismissed the petition. In doing so, the court failed to address the mother’s obligation under the consent order to encourage the child to communicate with the father. Whether she failed to do so as alleged remains a disputed contention necessitating relevant testimony, not simply the arguments of counsel. Nor did the court address the father’s claim that the mother failed to provide updated photographs and school records. In our view, the court erred in dismissing the petition without a hearing … . Matter of Shannon X. v Koni Y., 2020 NY Slip Op 01215, Third Dept 2-20-20

 

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