Legal Opinion
Fowler v. Rivera
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 1, 2002PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In a consolidated child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (McElligott, J.), entered February 20, 2001, as, after a hearing, denied her respective petitions for sole custody of each of the subject children and awarded joint custody to the parties.
Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, and the mother’s petitions for sole custody are granted.
The sole criterion in a custody case is the “best interests of the child and what…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Skolnick v. SkolnickAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988
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