Morris v. Ciaramitaro

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Sullivan County (Ledina, J.), entered October 27, 2003, which partially granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, for modification of a prior order of custody.

Under a 2001 court order based on the parties’ stipulation, petitioner (hereinafter the mother) and respondent (hereinafter the father) had joint legal custody of their child with sole physical custody with the mother in New York and regular visitation with the father in Massachusetts. In 2002, after the child reported that she had been sexually…