Norton v. Szewczyk

*995In 2002 the parties’ child was born in New York. On April 25, 2006 the Family Court, Suffolk County, entered an order, upon the parties’ stipulation, which gave the mother sole custody of the child and provided the father with “liberal rights of visitation.” Thereafter, the mother relocated with the child to Vermont. At some point, the mother married and her husband wanted to adopt the child. In 2008 the mother and her husband commenced an adoption proceeding in the Vermont Probate Court. The father objected to the adoption proceeding, and, on June 25, 2008, he filed a violation petition in…