Walton v. Walton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—In two related custody proceedings 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, Queens County (Croiter, J.), dated July 24, 2000, as, after a hearing, awarded custody of the child to the father.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
While an appellate court’s authority in custody matters is as broad as that of the trial court (see Leistner v Leistner, 137 *492AD2d 499 [1988]), it is widely accepted that custody decisions depend “to a very great extent upon…
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