Bibeau Jr. v. Ackey

Appeals from four orders of the Family Court of Essex County (Meyer, J.), entered August 7, 2007 and September 19, 2007, which dismissed petitioner’s applications, in four proceedings pursuant to Family Ct Act article 8, for orders of protection.

Petitioner is the father of a daughter (born in 2002) who resides with her mother.1 In August 2007, petitioner filed two family offense petitions seeking orders of protection in favor of the child against respondents—one against respondent Beth Ackey, the child’s maternal aunt (hereinafter the aunt), and one against respondent Edward Ackey, the aunt’s…