Barnes v. Abrams

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Otsego County (Lambert, J.), entered June 11, 2013, which, among other things, granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody.

Petitioner (hereinafter the father) and respondent (hereinafter the mother) are the unmarried parents of one child (born in 2010). A February 2012 order awarded joint custody to the parties with the mother having primary physical custody. In June 2012, the father, who was at that time deployed by the United States Army to Afghanistan, reportedly…