Blend v. Jones

—Carpinello, J.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Broome County (Ray, J.), entered November 28, 1995, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, granted respondent’s motion to dismiss the petition for lack of jurisdiction.

The parties are the parents of one child who was born in Florida in August 1982 and has resided there ever since. In March 1995, petitioner, a resident of New York since 1984, commenced this proceeding seeking custody of the child alleging that respondent was an alcoholic drug dealer who physically abused the child.* Although Family Court…