Matter of Bixler v. Vitrano

Appeal by the mother from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Kerri N. Lechtrecker, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated November 17, 2016. The order, insofar as appealed from, upon a decision dated August 29, 2016, made after a hearing, granted that branch of the father’s petition which was to modify the parties’ stipulation of settlement dated September 15, 2014, so as to award him sole residential custody of the parties’ child.

Ordered that on the Court’s own motion, the notice of appeal from the decision dated August 29, 2016, is deemed to be a premature notice of appeal from the order dated…