Marjorie G. v. Stephen G.

OPINION OF THE COURT

David B. Saxe, J.

The issue that I am asked to resolve in the context of this custody proceeding involving six-year-old twin boys is as follows: whether the de facto custodial parent (the mother) may determine the children’s religious upbringing by enrolling them in a Reform Jewish school against the wishes of the noncustodial parent (the father), who wants the children to be educated at a Conservative synagogue.

*199The mother, who works at a New York City law firm as a paralegal, and the father, a physician, were married in a Reform ceremony. During their marriage, they did…