MATTER OF MARKIS L. v. JACQUELYN C.

Docket No. V-24176-06/17B. Appeal No. 12664. Case No. 2019-03497.

189 A.D.3d 580 (2020)

134 N.Y.S.3d 184

2020 NY Slip Op 07672

In the Matter of Markis L., Respondent, v. Jacquelyn C., Appellant.

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

Decided December 17, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Randall S. Carmel, Jericho ( Randall S. Carmel of counsel), for appellant.

Bruce A. Young , New York, for respondent.

Dawne A. Mitchell , The Legal Aid Society, New York ( Diane Pazar of counsel), attorney for the child.

Concur—Manzanet-Daniels, J.P., Gesmer, Kern, Oing, Moulton, JJ.


The father demonstrated a sufficient change in circumstances by showing that in the last two years, he secured a stable job and home, took on responsibility for the child's medical needs, and that the mother had engaged in a physical altercation with him in front of the child. These developments when paired with the child's desire to live with the father warranted an inquiry into whether the custody order, issued in 2007 while the child was an infant, was still serving the...

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