Doroski v. Ashton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*903Modification of an existing custody arrangement is permissible only upon a showing that there has been a change in circumstances such that modification is necessary to ensure the best interests of the child (see Matter of Strand-O’Shea v O’Shea, 32 AD3d 398 [2006]). Parental alienation of a child from the other parent is “an act so inconsistent with the best interests of the children as to, per se, raise a strong probability that the [offending party] is unfit to act as custodial parent” (Entwistle v Entwistle, 61 AD2d 380, 384-385 [1978]; see Bobinski v Bobinski, 9 AD3d 441 [2004]; Stern v…
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