Matter of Alintoff v. Alintoff

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Kangs County (Dean T. Kusakabe, J.), dated September 18, 2015. The order dismissed the mother’s family offense petition on the ground of lack of jurisdiction.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

Contrary to the mother’s contentions, the Family Court properly determined that it did not have jurisdiction to entertain the mother’s family offense petition because there is a child custody proceeding pending in New Jersey (see Domestic Relations Law § 76-b). The mother’s family offense petition in New York gave rise to a “child…