Matter of Rosado v. Badillo

Appeal by the father from an order of the Family Court, Kings County (William Franc Perry, J.), dated January 13, 2016. The order, after a hearing, dismissed the father’s petition to modify a prior order of custody.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Kings County, for the assignment of an attorney to represent the father, and thereafter a new hearing on the petition and a new determination thereafter.

The parties are the parents of one child, born in 1999. In an order dated March 30, 2015, the mother…