Matter of Brown-Winfield v. Bailey

Appeal by the petitioner from an order of the Family Court, Queens County (Jane A. McGrady, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated November 19, 2014. The order, without a hearing, dismissed the petition seeking modification of a custody order of the Family Court, Kings County, on the ground that the Family Court, Queens County, was not the proper forum.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the petition is reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Queens County, for further proceedings on the petition.

On November 19, 2014, the petitioner filed a…