Valmas-Mann v. Loewenguth

Peters, EJ.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Otsego County (Burns, J.), entered July 20, 2012, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, to modify a prior order of custody.

Pursuant to a consent order entered in October 2007, petitioner (hereinafter the mother) and respondent (hereinafter the father) shared joint legal and residential custody of their son (born in 2002). In August 2011, the mother commenced this modification proceeding seeking sole custody of the child. Following fact-finding and Lincoln hearings, Family Court…