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FATHER TOLD THE COURT HE HAD RETAINED COUNSEL BUT COUNSEL COULD NOT ATTEND THE PETITION-TO-RELOCATE HEARING THAT DAY, COURT WENT AHEAD WITH THE HEARING, FATHER DEPRIVED OF HIS STATUTORY RIGHT TO COUNSEL.

The Second Department, reversing Family Court, determined father had been deprived of his right to counsel in mother’s relocation-petition proceeding. Father appeared for the hearing and told the court he had retained an attorney but the attorney could not attend that day. The court went ahead with the hearing:

After the court granted assigned counsel’s request to be relieved, it adjourned the hearing until June 24, 2016, so that the father could retain counsel. On June 24, 2016, the father told the court that he had retained an attorney but that the attorney could not be in court that day. The court, however, proceeded with the hearing after stating that it had no choice but to proceed.

We agree with the father’s contention that he was deprived of his statutory right to counsel … . Under the circumstances, instead of ordering the hearing to proceed, the Family Court should have granted an adjournment … . Accordingly, reversal is required, without regard to the merits of the father’s position, and we remit the matter … for a new hearing and new determination thereafter … . Matter of Charbonneau v Charbonneau, 2017 NY Slip Op 05221, 2nd Dept 6-28-17

 

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