Castellano v. England

—In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the father appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Rockland County (Garvey, J.), dated February 9, 1998, as, after a hearing, granted custody of the parties’ child to the mother.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

The findings of the Family Court, after a hearing, have a sound and substantial basis in the record and should be ac*413corded great deference on appeal (see, Matter of Ebert v Ebert, 38 NY2d 700, 703; Alanna M. v Duncan…