Lydia M.G. v. Administration for Children's Services

In a custody and visitation 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, Queens County (McGowan, J.), entered April 20, 2011, as, without a hearing, and upon granting the mother’s petition for an award of sole custody of the parties’ child Alyssa, failed to award him visitation with the child.

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

“The determination of whether to award visitation to a noncustodial parent lies within the sound discretion of the…