Legal Opinion
Coakley v. Goins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 16, 1997PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals from an order of the Family Court, Queens County (Schindler, J.), dated July 12, 1995, which, after a hearing, granted the father’s petition for custody of the parties’ daughter.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
In adjudicating custody and visitation rights, the most important factor for the court to consider is the best interests of the child (see, Eschbach v Eschbach, 56 NY2d 167; Matter of Schmidt v Schmidt, 234 AD2d 465), which requires an evaluation of the "totality…
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