Grouzis v. Grouzis, 2018-06961

• Decision Date: 16 October 2019
• Docket Number: Docket No. O-25467-17,2018-06961
• Citation: 108 N.Y.S.3d 367 (Mem),176 A.D.3d 936
• Parties: In the Matter of Georgios GROUZIS, Respondent, v. Anthony GROUZIS, Appellant.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

176 A.D.3d 936
108 N.Y.S.3d 367 (Mem)

In the Matter of Georgios GROUZIS, Respondent,
v.
Anthony GROUZIS, Appellant.

2018-06961
Docket No. O-25467-17

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

Submitted - September 6, 2019
October 16, 2019

Tammi D. Pere, Jamaica, NY, for appellant.

Law Offices of Andreas Vasilatos, PLLC, Bayside, N.Y. (Scott P. Benjamin of counsel), for respondent.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P., SHERI S. ROMAN, FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.

108 N.Y.S.3d 368

DECISION & ORDER

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In a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 8, Anthony Grouzis appeals from an order of fact-finding and disposition of the Family Court, Queens County (Mildred T. Negron, J.), dated April 23, 2018. The order, after fact-finding and dispositional hearings, found that Anthony Grouzis committed the family offenses of disorderly conduct and menacing in the third degree and directed him to comply with the terms of an order of protection of the same court, also dated April 23, 2018.

ORDERED that the order of fact-finding and disposition is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The petitioner commenced this family offense proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 8 against his grandson, the appellant. Following fact-finding and dispositional hearings, the Family Court found that the appellant committed the family offenses of disorderly conduct and menacing in the third degree, and issued an order of protection directing the appellant, inter alia, to stay away from the petitioner and the petitioner's home until and including April 23, 2020.

"A family offense must be established by a fair preponderance

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of the evidence" ( Matter of Washington v. Washington, 158 A.D.3d 717, 718, 70 N.Y.S.3d 560 ; see Family Ct Act § 832 ). "The determination of whether a family...