Saunders v. Saunders

Appeal from an order of the Ulster County Family Court, entered August 9, 1977, which awarded the custody of the parties’ two minor children to the petitioner. The parties were married in 1968 and three children were born of the union. Two children, Adam and Rachel, age six and two years respectively, survive, the eldest child having died as the result of an accident. In the early summer of 1976, after the parties agreed that their marriage was a failure, the appellant and the two children, with the tacit approval of the petitioner, left the marital abode and took up residence nearby. Several…