Legal Opinion
Matter of Gunther v. Brown
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 15, 2017No. 2016-00551PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the mother from an order of the Family Court, Westchester County (Hal B. Greenwald, J.), dated December 3, 2015. The order, after a hearing, denied the mother’s petition for sole custody of the subject child.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
This custody proceeding concerns a child who was born in 2006 and has never lived with her mother. In 2007, after the child resided with another relative for the first year of her life, she came into the care of the mother’s maternal aunt, who was awarded custody, upon the mother’s consent, in 2009. In December…
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