Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2003

Daniels v. Daniels

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided October 2, 2003

309 A.D.2d 1174; 764 N.Y.S.2d 897; 2003 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10074

Cases that cite this one

3 later published cases cite this decision.

Guinta v. Doxtator (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2005)
Whitford v. Grandinetti (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2004)
Di Fiore v. Scott (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2003)

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Opinion of the Court

Appeal from an order of Family Court, Erie County (Townsend, J.), entered March 7, 2002, which dismissed the petition seeking a change in custody.

*1175It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Family Court properly dismissed the petition seeking a change in custody at the close of petitioner’s case. Even accepting as true petitioner’s proof, affording petitioner every favorable inference to be drawn therefrom and resolving questions of credibility in his favor (see Matter of Le Blanc v Morrison, 288 AD2d 768, 770 [2001]), we conclude that petitioner failed to make a prima facie “showing of a change in circumstances which reflects a real need for change to ensure the best interest of the child” (Matter of Irwin v Neyland, 213 AD2d 773, 773 [1995]; see Matter of Zito v Pfohl, 302 AD2d 918 [2003]; Matter of Dordell v Dordell, 234 AD2d 868, 869 [1996]). Present — Green, J.P., Hurlbutt, Gorski, Lawton and Hayes, JJ.

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