Robert G. v. Tammy H.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Schenectady County (Polk, J.), entered January 7, 2016, which,among other things, granted petitioners’ application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, for custody of the subject child.

Respondent Tammy H. (hereinafter the mother) and respondent John H. (hereinafter the father) married in 2001, but the two became estranged shortly after their child’s birth in 2002.1 Following a brief reconciliation in 2004, the mother and the father again separated; according to the mother, the father subsequently visited with the child on only four…