Reynolds v. VanDusen

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Otsego County (Burns, J.), entered March 17, 2014, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior custody order.

The parties are the divorced parents of a child (born in 2002). Pursuant to a 2009 order, respondent (hereinafter the mother) *1295was awarded sole legal custody of the child and petitioner (hereinafter the father) was awarded parenting time on alternate weekends, and as the parties could agree. In 2013, the father commenced this proceeding seeking modification of the prior custody…