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EVIDENCE THE CHILD WAS OFTEN ABSENT FROM SCHOOL WARRANTED A HEARING ON FATHER’S PETITION FOR A MODIFICATION OF CUSTODY (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Family Court, determined father’s petition for modification of custody should not have been dismissed without holding a hearing. There was evidence the child, now in third grade, was often absent from school:

In seeking to modify the stipulated custody order, the father was required to show “a change in circumstances ‘since the time of the stipulation’ ” … . Here, the father and respondent mother entered into the stipulated order shortly after the child’s fifth birthday, before she would have entered kindergarten. At the hearing on the petition, the court received the child’s third-grade school attendance records in evidence. Although we cannot discern the precise number of absences from our review of the appellate record, the court expressed that it was “concerned” with the number of absences up to that point in the school year, of which there were approximately 30. Thus, we conclude that the father established a change in circumstances sufficient to warrant an inquiry into whether a change in custody is in the best interests of the child because the child’s school records demonstrate that she had excessive school absences in the third grade … . Therefore, we reverse the order, reinstate the petition, and remit the matter to Family Court for a hearing on the best interests of the child … . Matter of Myers v Myers, 2021 NY Slip Op 01916, Fourth Dept 3-26-21

 

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