| Matter of Gabriella E. v Joe V. |
| 2021 NY Slip Op 03144 [194 AD3d 542] |
| May 18, 2021 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Gabriella E., Respondent, v Joe V., Appellant. |
The Law Offices of Salihah R. Denman, PLLC, New York (Salihah R. Denman of counsel), for appellant.
Kenneth M. Tuccillo, Hastings on Hudson, for respondent.
Janet Neustaetter, The Children's Law Center, Brooklyn (Rachel J. Stanton of counsel), attorney for the child.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Judith Lieb, J.), entered on or about February 7, 2018, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted the petition for sole legal and physical custody of the subject child and denied respondent father's cross petition for custody, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court properly awarded petitioner mother sole custody of the child since she has always been the child's primary caregiver, respondent has never paid child support, and the child has a close bond with his half-sister, who lives with petitioner (see Matter of Rena M. v Derrick A., 122 AD3d 457, 458 [1st Dept 2014], lv denied 29 NY3d 906 [2015]). Concur—Kern, J.P., Oing, Singh, Moulton, JJ.