Legal Opinion
Leighton v. Bazan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 18, 2007PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Saratoga County (Abramson, J.), entered January 25, 2006, which partially granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody.
Petitioner is the biological father of two children, Jessica (born in 1988) and Jeffrey (born in 1990).* By a consent order of Family Court entered October 3, 1995, sole custody of the children was awarded to the mother with liberal visitation to petitioner. The mother and respondent thereafter married, raising the children together for 13 years until…
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