Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2003

Johnson v. Howard

Johnson v. Howard
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided March 21, 2003
303 A.D.2d 1005; 756 N.Y.S.2d 804; 2003 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3008
Johnson v. Howard

Opinion of the Court

—Appeal from an order of Family Court, Erie County (Townsend, J.), entered October 19, 2001, which dismissed the petition seeking modification of a prior custody order.

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

Memorandum: Family Court did not err in dismissing the *1006petition seeking modification of a prior custody order without conducting a hearing. Petitioner failed to make a sufficient evidentiary showing to warrant a hearing (see Matter of Culpepper v Caldwell, 284 AD2d 946 [2001]; David W. v Julia W., 158 AD2d 1, 6-7 [1990]). Present — Pigott, Jr., P.J., Green, Wisner, Burns and Gorski, JJ.

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