MATTER OF KASSIM v. AL-MALIKI

2020-02469. Docket Nos. V-28695-19, V-28696-19, V-28697-19, V-28698-19, V-28721-19, V-28722-19, V-28723-19, V-28724-19.

194 A.D.3d 719 (2021)

143 N.Y.S.3d 585

2021 NY Slip Op 02800

In the Matter of Karimah Kassim, Appellant, v. Bassim Al-Maliki, Respondent.

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

Decided May 5, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanctuary for Families Center for Battered Women's Legal Services, New York, NY ( Hannah R. West , Barbara C. Kryszko , and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP [ Daniel S. Magy and Marie Killmond ], of counsel), for appellant.

Coffinas & Lusthaus, P.C., Brooklyn, NY ( Maria Coffinas of counsel), for respondent.

Chambers, J.P., Austin, Brathwaite Nelson and Iannacci, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the petition is reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Kings County, for further proceedings consistent herewith.

The parties are the parents of four daughters, the eldest of whom was born in Yemen, and the remaining three of whom were born in the United States. The parties lived with their children in New York from approximately 2013 until approximately the spring...

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