Legal Opinion
Hall v. Porter
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 6, 2008PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Monroe County (Thomas W. Polito, R.), entered March 21, 2006 in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6. The order, among other things, awarded respondent sole custody of the parties’ child.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: We reject the contention of petitioner father that Family Court did not have jurisdiction to award sole custody of the parties’ child to respondent mother because she did not file a cross petition seeking that relief. “[T]he issue of an award of…
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