Legal Opinion
Gilmartin v. Abbas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 31, 2009PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals from an order of the Family Court, Kings County (Pearl, J.), dated January 23, 2008, which, after a hearing, granted the father’s petition to modify a prior custody order of the same court dated July 2, 2004, awarding her sole custody of the parties’ child, and awarded him sole custody of the subject child.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
Custody determinations depend to a great extent upon the hearing court’s assessment of the credibility of the witnesses and of the…
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