Legal Opinion
Matter of Lee v. Fitts
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 22, 2017No. 2015-12585PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the father from an order of the Family Court, Kings County (Emily M. Martinez, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated December 14, 2015. The order, insofar as appealed from, after a hearing, granted that branch of the mother’s petition which was for sole legal custody of the subject child and denied the father’s petition for joint legal custody of that child.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
The mother and the father, who were never married, have one child together. In September 2013, the mother filed a petition for sole legal and physical…
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