Corradino v. Corradino

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

We affirm, with costs, for the reasons stated on the opinion of Mr. Presiding Justice A. Franklin Mahoney at the Appellate Division (64 AD2d 320). As the court said in Matter of Nehra v Uhlar (43 NY2d 242, 251), "Priority, not as an absolute but as a weighty factor, should, in the absence of extraordinary circumstances, be accorded to the first custody awarded in litigation or by voluntary agreement” (emphasis supplied).

We would also note that, because the attorney for the petitioner husband was associated with the same law firm as was the Trial Judge prior to…