MATTER OF NWABUEZE v. OKAFOR

2017-08816. Docket Nos. V-31751-15, V-31752-15, V-31753-15.

166 A.D.3d 780 (2018)

88 N.Y.S.3d 206

2018 NY Slip Op 07729

In the Matter of Ursula-Pearl Uchenna Nwabueze, Respondent, v. Livinus Obinna Okafor, Appellant.

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

Decided November 14, 2018.


Ordered that the order dated July 20, 2017, is affirmed, with costs.

The mother filed a petition for sole custody of the parties' three children on or about December 18, 2015. The father was served with the petition on December 31, 2015, in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. Upon his failure to appear at a hearing, the Family Court issued an order on January 12, 2016, awarding the mother sole legal and physical custody of the children. Thereafter, in June 2017, the father...

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