William O. v. Michele A.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Chemung County (Buckley, J.), entered July 12, 2012, which, among other things, partially granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody and visitation.

Petitioner (hereinafter the father) and respondent Michele A. are the unmarried parents of three children (born in 2006, 2007 and 2009). In October 2009, while the father was incarcerated, custody of the two older children was awarded to the children’s maternal grandparents, respondents John A. and Wanda A. *991(hereinafter…