West v. Vanderhorst

*616The Referee’s determination, that it was in the child’s best interests to modify the parties’ joint custody agreement and award respondent sole legal and physical custody, has a sound and substantial basis in the record (Eschbach v Eschbach, 56 NY2d 167, 171 [1982]). Indeed, the record shows that, following entry of the parties’ judgment of divorce, which incorporated their stipulation providing for joint custody, there was a complete breakdown in communication between the parties and an incident of domestic violence in the child’s presence, thereby rendering joint custody infeasible (see…