Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 31, 2003 (Ortiz v. Ortiz)

Mugglin, J.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Columbia County (Leaman, J.), entered November 8, 2002, which *1237dismissed petitioner’s applications, in two proceedings pursuant to Family Ct Act articles 6 and 8, for, inter alia, custody of the parties’ children.

Petitioner and respondent are the parents of three children, two boys (born in 1995 and 1997) and a girl (born in 1999).