COPE, Judge.
Mirtha Castellvi Alvarez appeals an order granting an emergency motion to modify child custody. The order awarded temporary custody of the parties' ten year old child to the father, Robert Alvarez. We reverse.
The father and mother were divorced in Miami, Florida in 1980 and custody was awarded to the mother. When the son was eleven months old, the father kidnapped him and moved to New York. For the next
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