Monos v. Monos

• Decision Date: 17 December 2014
• Docket Number: 2013-11145 (Docket No. O-8281-13)
• Citation: 123 A.D.3d 931,999 N.Y.S.2d 131,2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 08846
• Parties: In the Matter of Aranka MONOS, respondent, v. Joseph MONOS, appellant.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

123 A.D.3d 931
999 N.Y.S.2d 131
2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 08846

In the Matter of Aranka MONOS, respondent
v.
Joseph MONOS, appellant.

2013-11145 (Docket No. O-8281-13)

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

Dec. 17, 2014.

999 N.Y.S.2d 131

Helene Chowes, New York, N.Y., for appellant.

Lisa Lewis, Brooklyn, N.Y., for respondent.

999 N.Y.S.2d 132

PETER B. SKELOS, J.P., RUTH C. BALKIN, LEONARD B. AUSTIN, and BETSY BARROS, JJ.

Opinion

123 A.D.3d 931

Appeal from an order of protection of the Family Court, Queens County (Dennis Lebwohl, J.), dated October 31, 2013. The order of protection directed the appellant, inter alia, to stay away from the petitioner until and including October 31, 2015.

ORDERED that the order of protection is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

“In a family offense proceeding, the petitioner has the burden of establishing, by a ‘fair preponderance of the evidence,’ that the charged conduct was committed as alleged in the petition” (Matter of Cassie v. Cassie, 109 A.D.3d 337, 340, 969 N.Y.S.2d 537 ). Here, contrary to the Family Court's determination, the petitioner did not prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the appellant committed the family offenses of criminal mischief in the first degree (Penal Law § 145.12 ), reckless endangerment in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.20 ; see generally People v. Davis, 72 N.Y.2d 32, 36, 530 N.Y.S.2d 529, 526 N.E.2d 20 ; Matter of Stanley F., 76 A.D.3d 1069, 1070, 908 N.Y.S.2d 127 ; cf. Matter of Kadeem W., 5 N.Y.3d 864, 808 N.Y.S.2d 130, 842 N.E.2d 15 ; Matter of George V., 231 A.D.2d 641, 647 N.Y.S.2d 968 ), or attempted assault in the third degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00, 120.00[1] ; see Matter of Callahan v. Picciano, 105 A.D.3d 953, 963 N.Y.S.2d 344 ; cf. Matter of Bessent v. Bessent, 113 A.D.3d 847, 979 N.Y.S.2d 543 ; see generally People v....