Matter of Cavalry v. Simpson

Appeal by the maternal grandfather from an order of the Family Court, Queens County (Jane A. McGrady, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated December 15, 2015. The order, upon the granting of the motion of the father and the attorney for the children, made at the close of the maternal grandfather’s case at a fact-finding hearing, to dismiss the petition for grandparent visitation for failure to make out a prima facie case, dismissed the petition.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the motion is denied, the petition is reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the…