Matter of Driscoll v. Oursler

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Cortland County (Campbell, J.), entered October 6, 2014, which, among other things, granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, for custody of the parties’ child.

Petitioner (hereinafter the father) and respondent (hereinafter the mother) are the parents of a child (born in 2007). After the parties went their separate ways in 2010, they had an informal and unstructured arrangement where they shared parenting time. In 2013, the father commenced the first of these proceedings seeking sole custody of the child.…