Chait v. Chait

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Friedman, J.), entered December 12, 1994, which, inter alia, awarded sole custody of the parties’ child to plaintiff father with liberal visitation to defendant mother, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendant contends that the court-appointed expert, on whose opinion the trial court relied in awarding custody of the child to plaintiff, was not impartial, and that this Court’s decisions in Rentschler v Rentschler (204 AD2d 60, Iv dismissed 84 NY2d 1027) and Matter of Rebecca B. (204 AD2d 57, Iv denied 84 NY2d 808) give such importance to…