MATTER OF PITTS v. DENNIS


235 A.D.2d 266 (1997)

652 N.Y.S.2d 35

In the Matter of Harold Pitts, Jr., Appellant, v. Andretta G. Dennis, Respondent

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

January 16, 1997


Family Court appropriately stated the ultimate fact it deemed essential to its determination of custody (see, Matter of Jose L. I., 46 N.Y.2d 1024), which is supported by the record, namely, that most of the father's parental responsibilities were discharged by his mother and sister during the time the child was in his custody. We agree with Family Court that such circumstance makes it in the child's best interests that the...

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