Legal Opinion

Gibson v. Skrine

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided June 14, 1999PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—In a custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the father appeals from so much of an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (McElligott, J.), entered March 27, 1997, as granted the maternal grandmother’s petition for custody of his two minor children and denied his cross-petition for the same relief.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

The father challenges the Family Court’s award of custody of his two minor children to the maternal grandmother, who has cared for the children since 1994. We reject the father’s…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Bennett v. JeffreysNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
  2. Pauline G. v. Carolyn F.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Modica v. ThompsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002

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