Legal Opinion
Matter of Schmitt v. Troche
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 8, 2017No. 2016-11699PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the petitioner from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Carol MacKenzie, J.), dated September 28, 2016. The order, without a hearing, denied the petition for custody of the subject child and granted the motion of the father to dismiss the petition for lack of standing.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The petitioner, who is not the parent of the subject child, commenced this proceeding for custody of the child, who was born in 2005. The respondent father moved to dismiss the petition, contending that the petitioner lacked standing to seek…
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