Murray-Lee v. Lewis

—Order, Family Court, New York County (Sara Schechter, F.C.J.), entered September 11, 1986, which dismissed the mother’s petition for custody of her child Nge C. Lewis on the ground that a proceeding was pending in the Virginia courts concerning the custody of the child, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded to the Family Court for further proceedings in accordance with this memorandum, without costs.

The subject of these proceedings is the infant Nge C. Lewis who was born August 24, 1980. Since his birth he has resided with his mother, petitioner Ethel Murray-Lee, in New…