Matter of Lela G. v. Shoshanah B.

Order, Family Court, New York County (George L. Jurow, J.H.O.), entered on or about July 13, 2016, which modified the parties’ January 26, 2012 so-ordered custody agreement, without a hearing, by, inter alia, modifying respondent Shoshanah B.’s weekly, holiday and summer parenting time, and restricting her access to information regarding the child’s education, health care, school events, and medical treatments, unanimously reversed, on the law, withoút costs, and the matter remanded for a hearing.

Modification of custody or visitation, even on a temporary basis, requires a hearing, absent a…