Stiles v. Edwards

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Steuben County (Timothy K. Mattison, J.H.O.), entered December 11, 2009 in a proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law article 5-A. The order awarded custody of the parties’ child to petitioner.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Petitioner father commenced this proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law article 5-A, seeking custody of the parties’ child after respondent mother took the child to Oregon, then to Georgia, and then back to Oregon. The father alleged that the…