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A single Queens dad whose kids were allegedly blended off to California by their mother against his desires says New york city’s virus-shuttered Family Court has failed him.
” I wish to be heard,” said Juan Miranda, 32, who states he hasn’t seen his 2 kids since mid-June, after their mother suddenly bolted Astoria, relocating to California in search of work.
Closures from coronavirus have actually wreaked havoc in courts throughout the city and state, including in Household Court, which handles domestic disagreements and kid custody issues.
If Miranda and his former high school sweetie had been wed and divorced, the father could have brought his case to state Supreme Court, which began taking brand-new cases on Might 25.
But the couple never ever got hitched, leaving Family Court– which has yet to begin hearing new cases, even as the rest of the court system slowly comes back to life– as the only location for Miranda to turn when his ex entrusted the kids, stated his lawyer, Steven Gilden.
Miranda sued the city and state in Queens Supreme Court in a quote to have brand-new cases like his heard.
In his July 7 court papers, he slammed Household Court’s refusal to handle fresh problems as “widespread institutional discrimination against parents who simpl[y] just happen not to be married to each other.”
” It doesn’t make any sense,” stated Gilden. “They chose to open a court for these cases where not everyone can go.”
A court spokesman confirmed Household Court is just handling pending or currently filed cases, and declined talk about the lawsuits.
Miranda, a line cook at a Manhattan dining establishment, had actually seen his kids, Damian, 15, and Allen, 11, 2 days a week because 2017 and had them full time for 6 weeks in April and May while their mother battled COVID-19 symptoms, he stated.
” I would teach them how to cook,” he said. “We would make scrambled eggs. We made burgers and meatballs and spaghetti from scratch. Throughout the six weeks they were here their grades went up drastically.”
Their mom supposedly overlooked his pleas not to take the young boys, with whom he texts daily, stated Miranda. He says the two are now staying in a confined Airbnb.
” I can’t eat, sleep. I’m simply thinking of my kids,” he said.
The mama could not be reached for remark.
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