Francis v. Francis
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- Quinones v. Long Island Jewish Medical Center (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2011)
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Opinion of the Court
In a visitation proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the father appeals from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Lynaugh, J.), dated March 4, 2010, which denied his motion to vacate an order of the same court dated September 19, 2005, and denied his separate motion for leave to file a petition for modification of visitation without prejudice to filing a new motion before the Family Court, Nassau County, where the visitation proceeding is currently pending.
Ordered that the order dated March 4, 2010, is affirmed, with costs.
The Family Court, Suffolk County, properly denied the petitioner’s motion to vacate an order dated September 19, 2005, as the petitioner failed to demonstrate the existence of any valid grounds for vacatur (see CPLR 5015 [a]; Alderman v Alderman, 78 AD3d 621 [2010]; Matter of Molinari v Tuthill, 59 AD3d 722 [2009]; Matter of Simpson v Ptaszynska, 41 AD3d 607, 608 [2007] ; Matter of Shreve v Shreve, 229 AD2d 1005, 1006 [1996]).
Under the circumstances of this case, the Family Court, Suffolk County, did not err in denying the father’s motion for leave to file a petition for modification of visitation without prejudice to filing a new motion before the Family Court, Nassau County, where the visitation proceeding is currently pending (see Matter
The father’s remaining contentions are without merit. Mastro, J.P., Rivera, Austin and Roman, JJ., concur.
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