McLaughlin v. Phillips

Appeal from an order and an amended order of the Family Court of Greene County (Tailleur, J), entered July 12, 2012 and August 21, 2012, which, among other things, granted respondent’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, for custody of the parties’ children.

*1185The parties are the parents of two children (born in 2007 and 2010). They lived together in South Carolina for several years, excepting a one-year separation, until shortly before the birth of the younger child. Petitioner (hereinafter the mother) then moved to New York with the older child without advance…