Garner v. Forsythe

Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Family Court of Tompkins County, entered August 22, 1980, which denied respondent’s motion to dismiss the petition on the ground of improper venue. In 1978, petitioner, then a resident of Pennsylvania, commenced a proceeding in the Family Court of Tioga County seeking a visitation order with respect to his son, who was residing with respondent in Tioga County. The parties were divorced in 1973 by a Pennsylvania decree and a subsequent order entered in that State awarded custody of the child to respondent and provided for visitation by petitioner.…