Legal Opinion

Matter of Suitt v. Martos

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided February 3, 2016No. 2015-00937Published

1Opinion of the Court

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Dutchess County (Joan S. Posner, J.), dated January 14, 2015. The order granted the father’s petition for sole legal and physical custody of the subject child, and denied the mother’s cross petition for custody.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The subject child was born to the mother while she was married to an individual (hereinafter the husband) other than the petitioner in this proceeding. On June 20, 2012, an order of filiation on default adjudicating the petitioner to be the father of the subject child…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Friederwitzer v. FriederwitzerNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
  2. Feliccia v. SpahnAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2013
  3. Matter of Vega v. VegaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014

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