MATTER OF FOUNTAIN v. FOUNTAIN


83 A.D.2d 694 (1981)

In the Matter of Clayton Fountain, Respondent, v. Ann M. Fountain, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

July 16, 1981


The order of the Family Court should be affirmed. That court found that it would be counter to the best interests of the children to uproot the "stable custody" of the father, particularly in view of the good care they were receiving in his household, and awarded custody of the two children of the marriage, Jeffrey, age 7, and Carrissa May, age 4, to him. The record supports the findings of the Family Court. There is no prima facie right to custody of the children in either...

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