Coley v. Sylva

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Ulster County (McGinty, J.), entered January 24, 2011, which, among other things, granted petitioner’s application, in four proceedings pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody.

Petitioner (hereinafter the father) and respondent (hereinafter the mother) are the parents of a daughter (born in 2003) and a son (born in 2004). Pursuant to a Family Court order based upon a stipulation entered in May 2010, the parties were granted joint legal and physical custody of the children, with physical custody alternating weekly…