Spooner v. Spooner

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Essex County (Halloran, J.), entered July 19, 1996, which, inter alia, dismissed an application by petitioner Gary L. Spooner, Jr., in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, to modify the custody provisions of the parties’ divorce decree.

During their marriage, petitioner Gary L. Spooner, Jr. (here*668inafter the father) and respondent Anna Spooner (hereinafter the mother) had one daughter born in 1989. Upon their divorce in 1991, custody of the child was awarded to the mother and the father’s obligation to pay child support was terminated…