Joshua SS. v. Amy RR.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Albany County (Maney, J.), entered March 14, 2012, which partially granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody and visitation.

Petitioner (hereinafter the father) and respondent (hereinafter the mother) are the parents of a daughter (born in 2004). In September 2005, a custody order was entered awarding the parties joint legal custody with primary physical custody to the mother. The parties began living together later that year and did so until May 2006, when the father was…