Matter of Sanchez v. Santiago

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Broome County (Connerton, J.), entered March 4, 2016, which, among other things, partially dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody and visitation.

In May 2015, Family Court entered an order awarding respondent (hereinafter the mother) sole custody of the parties’ child (born in 2008), with a schedule of visitation to petitioner (hereinafter the father). Five months later, the father commenced these two proceedings seeking sole custody of the child and to hold the…