Fish v. Fish

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Broome County (Pines, J.), entered May 3, 2011, which, among other things, granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody.

The parties are the parents of two sons (born in 1998 and 2005) who, pursuant to a custody order, were in the physical custody of respondent (hereinafter the mother). Petitioner (hereinafter the father) first sought a modification of the visitation provisions in that order and, after the mother engaged in erratic and violent behavior, custody of the…