Legal Opinion
Matter of Pavic v. Djokic
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 14, 2017No. 2016-05978PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the mother from an order of the Family Court, Dutchess County (Joan S. Posner, J.), dated May 19, 2016. The order, without a hearing, dismissed the mother’s petitions to modify an order of custody and visitation and to vacate an order of protection.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
While public policy generally mandates free access to the courts (see Matter of Pignataro v Davis, 8 AD3d 487, 489 [2004]; Sassower v Signorelli, 99 AD2d 358, 359 [1984]), a party may forfeit that right if she or he abuses the judicial process by engaging in meritless…
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