Ordered that the orders are reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion, with one bill of costs, and the mother's petition is denied in its entirety.
"As a general rule, some form of visitation by the noncustodial parent is always appropriate, `absent exceptional circumstances, such as those in which it would be inimical to the welfare of the child or where a parent in some manner has forfeited his or her right to such access'" (Zafran v Zafran,
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