Matter of Jennifer J.H. v. Artrieo J.R.

Appeal by the mother from an order of the Family Court, Dutchess County (Denise M. Watson, J.), entered January 8, 2016. The order, without a hearing, dismissed the mother’s petition to modify a prior order of that court so as to award her unsupervised visitation with the subject child.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Dutchess County, for a hearing to determine the best interests of the child and for a new determination on the mother’s petition to modify the prior visitation order.

The petitioner is…