Columbia County Department of Social Services ex rel. William O. v. Richard O.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtSpain, J.
Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Columbia County (Czajka, J.), entered August 19, 1998, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 4, to direct respondents to pay child support.
The key issue on this appeal is whether respondents’ child was emancipated, thereby relieving them of their obligation to pay child support. In 1985, at age five, William O. came into the care and custody of respondents through petitioner as an abused child. Respondents, who were related to William’s biological mother, were parents of two older children at…
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