Olin v. Johnston

—In related child custody proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the father appeals from so much of an order of the Family Court, Richmond County (McElrath, J.), dated October 26, 1998, as dismissed his petition for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

Domestic Relations Law § 75-d provides in pertinent part that a court of this State has the jurisdiction to make a child custody determination when this State “is the home state of the child” (Domestic Relations Law § 75-d [1] [a] [i]). Domestic Relations Law §…