PEOPLE EX REL. CLEOPA v. PETRAS


138 A.D.2d 548 (1988)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Neoptolemos Cleopa, Respondent, v. Chrysanthe Petras, Appellant

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

March 14, 1988


Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law and as a matter of discretion, with costs, and the third decretal paragraph thereof is deleted.

We find that the Supreme Court improperly directed that the petitioner father would be awarded custody of the parties' child in the event the mother failed to abide by the visitation provisions contained in a previous order. While a court may award custody of a child to either parent "for such time...

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