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MATTER OF McFARLANE v. NEWTON

2013-10885, Docket Nos. V-20778-9/10, V-33123-4/10.

127 A.D.3d 1199 (2015)

5 N.Y.S.3d 910

2015 NY Slip Op 03537

In the Matter of CHRISTOPHER McFARLANE, Respondent, v. KWANA NEWTON, Appellant.

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

Decided April 29, 2015.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Kings County (William Franc Perry, J.), dated November 14, 2013. The order, inter alia, after a hearing, granted the father's petition for sole legal and physical custody of the subject child.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

In adjudicating custody rights, the most important factor to be considered is the best interests of the child (see Eschbach v Eschbach, 56 N.Y.2d 167

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