Olmo v. Olmo

The parties were married in 1979. In December 1981 the defendant mother fled the marital home in Queens County because her husband had allegedly beaten her. She returned the next day, but in April 1982, after alleged continued abuse and a failed attempt at reconciliation, the mother took the parties’ then 2 Vi-year-old child and left the marital home to live with her parents in Denver, Colorado. The father thereafter began an action for separation and custody of the child in New York, and, simultaneously, the mother began an action for divorce and custody in Colorado. On October 5, 1982, the…