Coakley v. Sanders

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Essex County (Austin, J.), entered October 31,1995, which denied petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, for modification of a prior order of custody.

Following the parties’ divorce in 1987, respondent was granted sole custody of their son, born in 1984. In 1994, respondent was charged with endangering the welfare of a child as the result of an incident involving his 15-year-old female cousin, prompting petitioner to file a petition for modification of the custody provision of the judgment of divorce and an…