Apostolos v. Fairservice

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Sullivan County (Meddaugh, J.), entered October 7, 2004, which, inter alia, dismissed petitioner’s applications, in five proceedings pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody.

*721Petitioner (hereinafter the mother) and respondent (hereinafter the father) are the parents of a daughter born in 1997. The parties, who never married, separated before the birth of the child. In May 1998, Family Court granted temporary guardianship to the child’s paternal grandmother. In January 1999, on consent of the parties, Family Court…