Brian S. v. Stephanie P.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*686In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Orange County (Klein, J.), entered May 24, 2005, as, after a hearing, granted the father’s petition for custody of the subject child.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
Custody determinations depend “ ‘to a very great extent upon the hearing court’s assessment of the credibility of the witnesses and of the character, temperament, and sincerity of the parties’ ” (Matter of Venette…
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