Matter of Elissa A. v. Samuel B.

Order, Family Court, Bronx County (David B. Cohen, J.), entered on or about November 25, 2013, which, after a hearing, awarded sole legal and physical custody of the subject child to respondent father, with visitation to petitioner mother, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court’s determination that the child’s best interests will be served by awarding sole legal and physical custody to the father has a sound and substantial basis in the record (see Eschbach v Eschbach, 56 NY2d 167, 171 [1982]). As the court’s evaluation turned “almost entirely on assessments of the credibility of the…