Legal Opinion
Marlow v. Marlow
New York Supreme Court
Decided December 16, 1983PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Jeffrey G. Stark, J.
On this motion for a change of custody by a father whose former wife has breached the restrictive residence provision of a nonmerged separation agreement by surreptitiously removing the children of the marriage to California, two equally strong policies are contraposed to each other: on the one hand, the policy of our courts to jealously protect the visitation rights of a noncustodial parent, and on the other, the policy of deferring jurisdiction of custody disputes to that jurisdiction best able to hear all relevant evidence concerning the children’s…
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