Brillhart v. D'Andreamatteo

Appeal from an order of Family Court, Niagara County (Batt, J.), entered February 5, 2002, which denied respondent’s cross motion to dismiss the petition for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously reversed on the law without costs, the cross motion is granted and the petition is dismissed.

Memorandum: Respondent contends that Family Court lacks *870subject matter jurisdiction over this contempt proceeding in which petitioner alleges that respondent violated the court’s 1998 visitation order. Initially, we note…