Matter of Bell v. Mays

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Orange County (Andrew P. Bivona, J.), entered January 7, 2014. The order, without a hearing, granted the mother’s petition for sole legal and physical custody of the parties’ children and awarded the father visitation only to the extent as agreed upon by the parties.

Ordered that the order is modified, on the law, by adding a provision thereto directing an evidentiary hearing to determine the best interests of the children and for a new determination of father’s visitation; as so modified, the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements, and the…