| Matter of Faltings v Faltings |
| 2006 NY Slip Op 09240 |
| Decided on December 5, 2006 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports. |
Decided on December 5, 2006
ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, J.P.
THOMAS A. ADAMS
PETER B. SKELOS
JOSEPH COVELLO, JJ.
2005-11574
(Docket Nos. V-02444/01, V-02445/01, V-02446/01, V-02447/01)
v
Erik Faltings, respondent.
Jeffrey S. Schecter & Associates, P.C., Garden City, N.Y.
(Bryce Levine of counsel), for appellant.
Reynolds, Caronia, Gianelli, Hagney, LaPinta & Hargraves,
LLP, Hauppauge, N.Y. (James F.
Hagney of counsel), for respondent.
Jeannie R. Burton, Ronkonkoma, N.Y., Law Guardian for the
children.
DECISION & ORDER
In related child custody and visitation proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (MacKenzie, J.), dated November 3, 2005, which, inter alia, denied her petition for visitation.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The mother failed to establish changed circumstances sufficient to warrant modifying a custody order dated May 2, 2002, entered upon the parties' stipulation, which awarded the father sole custody of the parties' four children and effectively denied her visitation. Based on the record before it, the Family Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the mother's petition for visitation (see Family Ct Act § 652[b][ii]; see also Friederwitzer v Friederwitzer, 55 NY2d 89, 95; Messinger v Messinger, 16 AD3d 562, 563; Manos v Manos, 282 AD2d 749).
SCHMIDT, J.P., ADAMS, SKELOS and COVELLO, JJ., concur.[*2]
ENTER:
James Edward Pelzer
Clerk of the Court