Flanigan v. Smyth

Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Family Court of Albany County (M. Walsh, J.), entered October 28, 2015, which imposed monetary sanctions against Linda A. Mandel Clemente and Paul W. Van Ryn.

This appeal has its genesis in a dispute between petitioner (hereinafter the father) and respondent (hereinafter the mother) concerning custody of and visitation with their son (born in 2000). By order entered April 24, 2012, the mother was awarded sole custody of the child and the father was granted an initial visit with the child — to be followed by “such other and further visits as the…