Maraj v. Gordon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the father appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Kings County (O’Shea, J.), dated February 14, 2011, as, after hearing, awarded sole custody of the parties’ son to the mother.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
The essential consideration in determining custody is the best interests of the child (see Eschbach v Eschbach, 56 NY2d 167, 171 [1982]; Matter of Carrasquillo v Cora, 60 AD 3d 852, 853 [2009]; Gurewich v Gurewich, 43…
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