MATTER OF MATTHEW P. v. LINNEA W.

Docket Nos. O-2892-20, V-2893-20, V-3036-20, O-4643-20. Appeal Nos. 14247, 14247A. Case No. 2020-02561.

197 A.D.3d 1070 (2021)

154 N.Y.S.3d 59

2021 NY Slip Op 05171

In the Matter of Matthew P., Appellant, v. Linnea W., Respondent. In the Matter of Linnea W., Respondent, v. Matthew P., Appellant.

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

Decided September 30, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Kepanis Law Firm, P.C., New York ( Douglas S. Kepanis of counsel), for appellant.

Leslie S. Lowenstein , Woodmere, for respondent.

Concur—Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Kern, Oing, Rodriguez, Higgitt, JJ.


The father showed good cause for a tailored TOP against the mother in his favor (see Family Ct Act § 828). The father's pending family offense petition indicated that the mother repeatedly sent numerous unsolicited text messages to him in which she, inter alia, criticized him and his children from a prior marriage, threatened to confront the father, his eldest child, and his ex-wife, threatened to abscond with the child, threatened to destroy the father's personal...

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