Opinion
15825 Dkt. No. O-433/21 Case No. 2021-02159
04-28-2022
In the Matter of YAJAIRA B., Petitioner–Appellant, v. VICTORIA B., Respondent–Respondent.
Law Office of Lewis S. Calderon, Jamaica (Lewis S. Calderon of counsel), for appellant. Richard L. Herzfeld, P.C., New York (Richard L. Herzfeld of counsel), for respondent.
Law Office of Lewis S. Calderon, Jamaica (Lewis S. Calderon of counsel), for appellant.
Richard L. Herzfeld, P.C., New York (Richard L. Herzfeld of counsel), for respondent.
Acosta, P.J., Manzanet–Daniels, Mazzarelli, Singh, Gonza´lez, JJ.
Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Jennifer Burtt, Court Attorney Referee), entered on or about June 10, 2021, which granted respondent's motion to dismiss the family offense petition for failure to state a cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The Family Court correctly dismissed the family offense petition without a hearing. Even afforded a liberal construction and accepted as true, the conclusory and nonspecific allegations in the petition fail to allege facts that, if proven, would establish that respondent committed the family offenses of harassment in the second degree under Penal Law § 240.26(3) or identity theft in the third degree under Penal Law § 190.78 (see Matter of Stefan R. v. Yesenia R., 191 A.D.3d 486, 486, 138 N.Y.S.3d 301 [1st Dept. 2021], citing Matter of Waldron v. Heyward, 155 A.D.3d 636, 637, 62 N.Y.S.3d 545 [2d Dept. 2017] ).