Francis v. Holder

In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the father appeals from an order of the Family Court, Kings County (Krauss, J.), dated September 17, 2008, which, after a hearing, awarded custody of the parties’ child to the mother and, in effect, awarded him only supervised visitation.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The determination of whether visitation should be supervised is a matter left to the Family Court’s sound discretion, and its findings will not be disturbed on appeal unless they lack a sound basis in the record (see Matter…