Matter of Mack v. Richardson

Appeal by the petitioner from an order of the Family Court, Kings County (Sharon A. Bourne-Clarke, J.), dated March 29, 2016. The order, upon the granting of the respondent’s motion, made at the close of the petitioner’s case, to dismiss the petition 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 petition is reinstated, the motion is denied, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Kings County, for a new fact-finding hearing and determination on the petition.

In 2015, the petitioner…