MATTER OF SECRIST v. BROWN

CAF 10-00543.

83 A.D.3d 1399 (2011)

919 N.Y.S.2d 449

In the Matter of ROBERT D. SECRIST, Appellant, v. KRISTA BROWN, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department.

Decided April 1, 2011.


It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Petitioner father, who is incarcerated, appeals from an order dismissing his petition seeking visitation with the parties' children without a hearing. Although generally "`[a] determination of the [children's] best interests should only be made after a full evidentiary hearing,'" no such hearing is required where "`there is sufficient information before the court...

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