MATTER OF WARRIOR v. BEATMAN


70 A.D.3d 1358 (2010)

893 N.Y.S.2d 786

In the Matter of NORMA WARRIOR, Appellant, v. ROBERT BEATMAN, SR., Respondent.

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

Decided February 11, 2010.


It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: We reject the contention of petitioner mother that Family Court erred in granting the Law Guardian's motion to dismiss the petition seeking modification of an existing custody order without conducting a hearing. "A hearing is not automatically required whenever a parent seeks modification of a custody order" (Matter of Wurmlinger v Freer,

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