Kozlowski v. Mangialino
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In two related child custody proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the father appeals from an order of the Family Court, Queens County (DePhillips, J.), dated October 27, 2005, which, after a hearing, granted the mother’s petition for custody of the child, and awarded liberal unsupervised visitation to him.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The essential consideration in a custody determination is to promote the best interests of the child (see Eschbach v Eschbach, *91756 NY2d 167, 171 [1982]; Friederwitzer v Friederwitzer, 55 NY2d 89, 95 [1982]). “Since the Family Court’s…
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