Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York October 26, 2017, 524006 (Matter of Whetsell v. Braden)

Egan Jr., J.P.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Broome County (Miller II, J.), entered February 3, 2016, which, among other things, granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, for custody of the parties’ child.

Petitioner (hereinafter the mother) and respondent (hereinafter the father) are the unwed parents of a child (born in 2005).