Van Zandt v. Sauers

Cross appeals from an order of the Family Court of Ulster County (Work, J.), entered April 11, 2003, which dismissed the parties’ applications, in three proceedings pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody.

The parties are the parents of one child born in July 1998. Pursuant to a February 2000 custody order entered on the par*822ties’ consent, the parties shared joint legal custody and each parent had physical custody for half of each week. The father filed a custody petition in November 2000 seeking sole custody based on allegations that the child suffered an…