MATTER OF TANIA W. v. RICHARD B.


261 A.D.2d 895 (1999)

690 N.Y.S.2d 466

In the Matter of TANIA W., Appellant, v. RICHARD B., Respondent. (Appeal No. 1.)

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

Decided May 7, 1999.


Order unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum:

Family Court properly granted the petition of respondent father for modification of the existing custody arrangement. The court found that the father was "more fit" than petitioner mother to care for the parties' five-year-old child based upon proof that the mother had physically abused the child (see, Matter of Tracy V. v Donald W., 220...

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