Charpentier v. Charpentier

— In two consolidated proceedings, one brought by the father to modify a judgment of divorce to grant him custody of the parties’ son, and the other brought by the mother for a writ of habeas corpus to regain physical custody of the parties’ son, the father appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Winick, J.), entered September 23, 1983 as (1) denied his application for custody of the infant issue of the parties, (2) granted the mother’s application for a writ of habeas corpus, and (3) awarded the mother counsel fees. (We treat the…