Legal Opinion
Tompkins v. Sterling
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 13, 1999PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In two related child custody proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the parents appeal from so much of an order of the Family Court, Putnam County (Braatz, J.), entered February 28, 1997, as awarded permanent custody of their twin sons to the maternal grandparents.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
The twin boys at the center of this custody dispute have lived with the maternal grandparents since their birth on May 10, 1993. In June 1995, the biological mother, who is mildly retarded, married the biological father, and in…
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