In a case of first impression, a Long Island judge has held that a birth mother’s relationship with the woman who adopted her three children constitutes an “intimate relationship” giving rise to Family Court jurisdiction under a 2008 amendment to the Family Court Act.
“The nexus created between the [two women] and between each of them and the children they have both been mothers to, albeit at different times, results in a relationship that is greater than a casual acquaintance or ordinary fraternization, and as such qualifies as an intimate relationship,” Family Court Judge Julianne S. Eisman in Nassau County (See Profile) ruled in M.F. v. K.G.
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