Matter of Jones v. Jones

Appeal by the mother from an order of the Family Court, Kangs County (Alan Beckoff, J.), dated August 2, 2016. The order, without a hearing, dismissed the mother’s family offense petition for failure to state a cause of action.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the mother’s family offense petition is reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Kings County, for further proceedings on that petition.

The mother filed a family offense petition alleging that, on a specific date, the father, inter alia, struck the subject child. The…