Mulligan v. Mulligan

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Sullivan County (Traficanti Jr., J.), entered March 28, 1990, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, to find respondent in violation of a prior order of visitation.

Petitioner commenced this proceeding claiming that respondent and his wife, Patricia Rivera, interfered with petitioner’s phone calls to her three children and that respondent and Rivera used drugs and alcohol and mentally and physically abused the children. Both parties appeared pro se. Following a hearing, Family Court dismissed…