Ross v. Hodges

In a child custody and visitation proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Fondulis, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated February 26, 2013, which, after a hearing, denied the mother’s petition for permission to relocate to Ohio with the subject child.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

A parent seeking to relocate with a child bears the burden of establishing by a preponderance of the evidence that the proposed move would be in the child’s best interests (see Matter of Caruso v Cruz, 114 AD3d 769, 771 [2014]). In…