Wakefield v. Wakefield
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Boggio, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated May 11, 2009, as, without a hearing, granted the father’s motion to dismiss her amended petition to modify the parties’ judgment of divorce so as to award her sole custody of the parties’ child.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
Modification of an existing custody arrangement is permissible only upon a showing that there has been a…
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