Matter of Brown v. Brown

Appeal from an order of disposition of the Family Court, Queens County (Dennis Lebwohl, J.), dated June 17, 2014. The order of disposition, upon the granting of the respondent’s motion, made at the close of the petitioner’s case at a fact-finding hearing, to dismiss the petition for failure to establish a prima facie case, dismissed the petition.

Ordered that the order of disposition is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the motion to dismiss the petition is denied, the petition is reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Queens County, for further…