Matter of Smith v. Rygiel

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Orange County (Victoria B. Campbell, J.), entered July 15, 2016. The order, insofar as appealed from, after a fact-finding hearing, granted the father’s petition, in effect, for sole legal and residential custody of the parties’ child, denied the mother’s cross petition, in effect, for sole legal and residential custody of the parties’ child, and dismissed the mother’s family offense petition.

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

The parties, who never married, are the parents of daughter born in…