This question causes a recall of how criminal prosecutions occurred before the 2019 amendment of Article 245 of the Criminal Procedure Law. New...

Our citizenry does not live in a nation where every person earns the exact same income and has to deduct identical amounts for support of children....

The asker wants to accomplish a goal that cannot be accomplished under current policy regarding paternal visitation. A father who is labeled as a...

Federal statutes that govern family court cases like child support were written by incompetent politicians who themselves never ran a business....

Family court's numerous operating statutes are largely federally preempted. For example, child support is regulated by several statutes. One of...

There are no pros in voluntarily exposing oneself to a state run apparatus that extracts money. Mixing with government is a disastrous mistake as...

We here really cannot provide litigation advice to individual litigants online knowing nothing of the case and not being paid to compensate us for...

If the order of protection was pursuant to Article 8 of New York's Family Court Act, then the order was entered on the asker's prompt, and remains...

The asker must go to her attorney with these questions. We have no idea what the asker's order of support says and how payments are to be credited....

The short answer is certainly the asker can petition in his county's family court for an order of custody. If the child resides in Manhattan, then...