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In the Matter of Abamonte v. Cleary

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Oct 27, 2003
309 A.D.2d 929 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)

Opinion

2002-10785, 2002-10786

Submitted September 22, 2003.

October 27, 2003.

In a child support proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 4, the mother appeals from (1) an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Buse, H.E.), entered September 6, 2002, which, after a hearing, inter alia, denied her petition to compel the father to pay one-half of the summer day camp expenses of the parties' child and directed her to obtain health insurance for that child under a policy provided by her employer pursuant to Family Court Act § 416, and (2) an order of the same court (Trainor, J.), entered October 21, 2002, which denied her objections to the aforementioned portions of the order entered September 6, 2002.

Phillip J. Jusino, Lake Grove, N.Y., for appellant.

Before: DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., ANITA R. FLORIO, SONDRA MILLER, DANIEL F. LUCIANO, JJ.


DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the appeal from the order entered September 6, 2002, is dismissed, as that order was superseded by the order entered October 21, 2002; and it is further,

ORDERED that the order entered October 21, 2002, is modified by deleting the provision thereof denying the objection to the portion of the order entered September 6, 2002, which directed the mother to obtain health insurance for the parties' child under a policy provided by her employer and substituting therefor a provision sustaining that objection; as so modified, the order entered October 21, 2002, is affirmed, without costs or disbursements, and so much of the order entered September 6, 2002, as directed the mother to obtain health insurance for the parties' child under a policy provided by her employer is vacated.

It is undisputed that the parties' child is covered under the father's policy of insurance provided by his employer. At the hearing held on July 9, 2002, neither the mother nor the father sought an order directing the mother to also obtain health insurance for the child under a policy provided by her employer, nor did either party present any evidence as to the terms of the health insurance policies provided by the parties' employers, or whether those policies were complimentary ( see Family Ct Act § 416). Under these circumstances, it was an improvident exercise of discretion to direct the mother to also obtain health insurance for the child under the policy provided by her employer ( see Matter of Terris v. Terris, 84 A.D.2d 844).

The mother's remaining contentions are without merit.

RITTER, J.P., FLORIO, S. MILLER and LUCIANO, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

In the Matter of Abamonte v. Cleary

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Oct 27, 2003
309 A.D.2d 929 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)
Case details for

In the Matter of Abamonte v. Cleary

Case Details

Full title:IN THE MATTER OF PATRICIA A. ABAMONTE, appellant, v. JOSEPH T. CLEARY…

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

Date published: Oct 27, 2003

Citations

309 A.D.2d 929 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)
766 N.Y.S.2d 123

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