Griffin v. Scott
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the father appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Sweeney, J.), dated April 25, 2002, as, after a hearing, denied his petition for a change of custody of the subject child from the mother to him.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The best interests of the child are the paramount consider*505ation in making any award of custody (see Friederwitzer v Friederwitzer, 55 NY2d 89, 94 [1982]; Matter of Sullivan v Sullivan, 190 AD2d 852…
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