Hempstead v. Hyde

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Otsego County (Burns, J.), entered October 2, 2015, which, among *1439other things, granted petitioner’s application, in proceeding No. 2 pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody.

Stephanie Hempstead (hereinafter the mother) and Elmer Hyde III (hereinafter the father) are the parents of two children (born in 2006 and 2010). The mother and the father shared joint legal custody of the children pursuant to a January 2014 order by which the father had physical custody of the children and the mother had weekend and weekday…