Linda D. v. Renee D.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Cortland County (Campbell, J.), entered March 16, 2006, which, inter alia, dismissed petitioner’s application, in proceeding No. 2 pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody.

Respondent Renee D. (hereinafter the mother) and respondent/petitioner Chad B. (hereinafter the father) are the parents of two children, born in 1995 and 1998. Although never married, the mother and father were involved in an extended relationship, which ended in 2000 when the oldest child was adjudged neglected and the younger child was adjudged to…