Steven M. v. Meghan M.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Seneca County (Dennis F. Bender, J.), entered November 14, 2005 in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6. The order denied and dismissed the petition.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously reversed on the law without costs, the petition is reinstated, and the matter is remitted to Family Court, Seneca County, for a new hearing in accordance with the following memorandum: Petitioner, who is incarcerated based on his conviction of manslaughter in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.15 [1])…