Matter of Jackson v. Wylie-Tunstall

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Kerri N. Lechtrecker, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated June 16, 2014. The order, without a hearing, dismissed the father’s amended petition for visitation with the subject child.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the amended petition is reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Suffolk County, for a hearing on the amended petition in accordance herewith.

The mother and father, who were never married, are the parents of a daughter, born on March 21, 2003. The father has been…