Purse v. Crocker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Lechtrecker, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated June 23, 2011, as, after a hearing, granted the father’s petition for sole custody of the subject child.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
In adjudicating custody and visitation rights, the most important factor to be considered is the best interests of the *1217child (see Matter of Awan v Awan, 63 AD3d 733, 734 [2009], citing Eschbach v Eschbach, 56…
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