Austin v. Smith

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Otsego County (Lambert, J.), entered January 13, 2016, which, among other things, granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody.

Petitioner (hereinafter the mother) and respondent (hereinafter the father) are the divorced parents of a son (born in 2011). By order entered on consent in November 2012, the parties were granted joint legal custody of the child with equal parenting time. According to all involved, the mother and the father thereafter worked in a cooperative…