Carpenter v. Carpenter

— Appeal from an order of the Family Court of St. Lawrence County (Follett, J.), entered September 14, 1981, which awarded custody of the parties’ infant child to petitioner. The parties’ five and one-half year marriage ended in divorce in 1981. Their only child, Jeremy, born in 1978, is the subject of this custody proceeding. Following a hearing at which the parties and several witnesses testified, the court, in a bench decision, granted custody to petitioner. Respondent maintains that the decision is against the weight of the evidence and, further, that the court erred in that it failed to…