Venette v. Rhodes
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—In a custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Dutchess County (Forman, J.), entered April 9, 2001, as, after a hearing, granted the father’s petition to transfer custody of the parties’ daughter to him.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
Custody decisions depend “to a very great extent upon the hearing court’s assessment of the credibility of the witnesses and of the character, temperament, and sincerity of the parties” (Alanna…
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