Charles I. v. Khadejah I.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Ulster County (Mizel, J.), entered February 29, 2016, which, among other things, granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, for custody of the parties’ children.

Petitioner (hereinafter the father) and respondent (hereinafter the mother) are the parents of three children (born in 2002, 2006 and 2011). The mother and father lived together with the children in Ulster County until late 2014, when the mother took the three children to live in a domestic violence shelter located in Dutchess County. In January…