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MATTER OF ROHR v. YOUNG, 148 A.D.3d 1681 (2017)

Court: Supreme Court of New York Number: innyco20170324397 Visitors: 12
Filed: Mar. 24, 2017
Latest Update: Mar. 24, 2017
Summary: It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Respondent-appellant grandmother appeals from an order that, inter alia, modified a prior order entered on consent by changing the grandmother's one-hour biweekly supervised therapeutic visitation with the two teenaged children to one supervised two-hour visit per month in a public place. Family Court denied petitioner father's petition insofar as it requested that the visitation be terminate
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It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Respondent-appellant grandmother appeals from an order that, inter alia, modified a prior order entered on consent by changing the grandmother's one-hour biweekly supervised therapeutic visitation with the two teenaged children to one supervised two-hour visit per month in a public place. Family Court denied petitioner father's petition insofar as it requested that the visitation be terminated. We reject the grandmother's contention that the father failed to establish that there was a sufficient change in circumstances to warrant consideration of the best interests of the children. The 15-year-old child testified that she did not wish to visit with her grandmother and, although "`not dispositive, the express wishes of older and more mature children can support the finding of a change in circumstances'" (Matter of Rulinsky v West, 107 A.D.3d 1507, 1508 [2013]). Furthermore, the Court Attorney Referee was entitled to credit the testimony of the father and the child that the children had difficulty completing homework on the days that both extracurricular activities and the therapeutic visits were scheduled (see generally Matter of Jones v Laird, 119 A.D.3d 1434, 1434-1435 [2014], lv denied 24 N.Y.3d 908 [2014]). Contrary to the grandmother's contention, the determination of the court that it was in the best interests of the children to modify the visitation schedule has a sound and substantial basis in the record (see Matter of Stilson v Stilson, 93 A.D.3d 1222, 1223 [2012]), and we note in any event that the "modified schedule has no meaningful adverse impact on the [grandmother's] interests" (Gardner v Korthals, 130 A.D.3d 1468, 1469 [2015]).

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