MATTER OF MERCHANT v. CALDWELL

2020-05769. Docket No. V-11119-12/19C.

198 A.D.3d 782 (2021)

156 N.Y.S.3d 254

2021 NY Slip Op 05570

In the Matter of Ronald S. Merchant, Jr., Appellant, v. Cameron L. Caldwell, Respondent.

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

Decided October 13, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sonnenfeld & Richman LLP, New York, NY ( Judith R. Richman and Brad Evan Serlen of counsel), for appellant.

Advocate LLP, New York, NY ( Jason A. Advocate of counsel), for respondent.

Jennifer Marshall , Brooklyn, NY, attorney for the child.

Mastro, J.P., Miller, Connolly and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the order of dismissal is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the order dated June 29, 2020, is vacated, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Kings County, for forensic evaluations of the parties and the subject child, and an evidentiary hearing on the father's petition and a new determination thereafter of the father's petition.

The parties were never married, and have one child in common. On October 1, 2013, they entered...

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