Willoughby v. Willoughby

In a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6 to modify an out-of-State judgment fixing custody, the petitioner father appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Fierro, J.), entered April 7, 1987, as denied his application for a transfer of custody and granted the respondent mother’s cross motion to dismiss the proceeding.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

In 1979 the parties were divorced in Indiana and the respondent mother was awarded custody of their two daughters. Shortly thereafter, the…