After studying case law in Indiana, Kentucky and other states, a Queens Family Court judge decided he could not consider an order of protection petition because the parties do not meet the definition of “family” to be heard in his court.
Though the petitioner and the respondent may both be “kin” in a loose sense of the word, they are not closely enough related, if they are related at all, to fall under the purview of the court as defined in §812[1] of the Family Court Act, Judge John Hunt ruled in Matter of Anita C. v. Johana S., O-20308/14.
