All matters listed below are fully resolved unless explicitly marked “ongoing.”
All allegations of misconduct were dismissed or found unfounded.
Sole legal and physical custody of the child was awarded to Karl Reeves by final appellate order.
| Case Name & Citation | Nature of Proceeding | Key Outcome | Decision Date & Public Link |
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| Karl Reeves v. Julianne Michelle Reeves 2024 NY Slip Op 05501 Index No. 01249/2023 |
Final Appellate Custody Determination (Appellate Division, First Department) |
First Department affirmed the final custody order "this Court also has the authority to review the record and make its own credibility assessment " " we find that there is a sound and substantial basis in the record for the court's determination that awarding custody to the father was in the child's best interests" |
November 7, 2024 Full Decision → |
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Karl C. Reeves v. The Foundation for the Child Victims of the Family Courts et al. & Jill Jones-Soderman Index No. 150731/19 Case No. 2024-07814 |
Defamation action arising from "ethics complaints" posted during custody dispute (Appellate Division, First Department, affirming Supreme Court, New York County) |
Order denying defendants' motion to dismiss the defamation claim unanimously affirmed, without costs. Claim proceeds under anti-SLAPP standards; fair report privilege inapplicable. |
February 17, 2026 Appellate Division Decision (Full Text) → |
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New York's Anti-SLAPP Act: An Unnecessary Chill on the First Amendment Right to Petition By Alan S. Lewis & Madelyn K. White |
New York Law Journal January 12, 2026 |
Critical examination of the 2020 amendments to New York's anti-SLAPP Act (Civil Rights Law §§ 70-a, 76-a), highlighting how expanded scope, heightened evidentiary burdens, discovery stays, actual malice requirements, and mandatory fee-shifting may deter meritorious defamation claims and favor institutional defendants—relevant to procedural aspects of defamation litigation involving public-interest statements. | Full Article (Free on Mondaq) → |
| Karl Reeves, Plaintiff, v. Julianne Michelle Reeves and Joshua A. Douglass, (Adv. Proc. No. 23-01028) Within In re Reeves, Case No. 19-36354 (CGM) |
Adversary proceeding in Chapter 7 bankruptcy – sanctions against attorney (U.S. Bankruptcy Court, S.D.N.Y.) |
"The Complaint alleges fraud on the court perpetrated by Julianne and Douglass, jointly and severally. The genesis of this adversary proceeding is Julianne’s Chapter 7 case, filed on March 22, 2022. (See ECF Doc. # 1.) Schedule A/B lists Julianne’s “total personal property” as $151,210,044.83. Not bad for a Chapter 7 debtor! “The Court finds and concludes that the Complaint successfully pleaded a claim for fraud on the court" Attorney sanctioned $46,691.70 for fraud | December 12, 2023 Full Decision → |
Julianne Michelle Reeves, Plaintiff, v. Karl Reeves (1:22-cv-0254423) Within In re Reeves, |
Civil Right - Other Civil Right | ”The petitioner, Julianne Michelle Reeves, has filed a notice of removal to remove this child custody action from the Family Court of the State of New York to this Court. The petitioner also brings an emergency motion for sanctions and for a preliminary injunction to enforce removal.“The Court declines to exercise jurisdiction over this child custody proceeding. Under the domestic relations abstention doctrine, federal courts should not exercise jurisdiction over a dispute that is matrimonial in nature, including a child custody dispute. The petitioner’s attempt to invoke bankruptcy removal is unpersuasive. For the reasons explained above, the petitioner’s motion for sanctions and for a preliminary injunction is denied. The Clerk is directed to remand this action to the Family Court of the State of New York, New York County. . | March 29, 2022 Full Decision → |
| Matter of Jocelyn Engle Di Palma v. Karl Reeves et al. Docket No. V0087/23 Case No. 2024-00923 |
Appeal from sua sponte dismissal of grandmother's visitation petition (Appellate Division, First Department) |
Appeal from order, Family Court, New York County (Hasa A. Kingo, J.), entered on or about January 8, 2024, which sua sponte dismissed petitioner’s petition for visitation with her granddaughter with prejudice, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as taken from a nonappealable order | January 9, 2025 Access via eCourts → |
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