Hollister v. Hollister

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of St. Lawrence County (Nelson, J.), entered April 23, 1997, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, for custody of the parties’ child.

The parties were married in December 1994. They have one child, a son born in 1995. In February 1996, respondent took the child from the marital residence in St. Lawrence County and went to live with her family in Pennsylvania. Petitioner, who had been given no notice of respondent’s intention to leave the marital residence or of the whereabouts of the child…