Matter of Macrina v Merritt (2026 NY Slip Op 00654)
Matter of Macrina v Merritt
2026 NY Slip Op 00654 [246 AD3d 1368]
February 11, 2026
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, April 8, 2026


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 In the Matter of Nicholas J. Macrina, Respondent-Appellant,
v
Ellissa M. Merritt, Also Known as Salm, Appellant-Respondent. In the Matter of Ellissa M. Merritt, Also Known as Salm, Appellant-Respondent, v Nicholas J. Macrina, Respondent-Appellant.

Peter J. Digiorgio, Jr., Utica, for respondent-appellant-respondent and petitioner-appellant-respondent.

Getnick Livingston Atkinson & Priore, LLP, Utica (Thomas L. Atkinson of counsel), for petitioner-respondent-appellant and respondent-respondent-appellant.

Scott Bielicki, Chittenango, Attorney for the Child.

Appeal and cross-appeal from an order of the Family Court, Oneida County (Julia Brouillette, J.), entered November 18, 2024, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6. The order, inter alia, granted the parties joint legal custody of the subject child with primary physical residence to petitioner-respondent Nicholas J. Macrina.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Whalen, P.J., Curran, Montour, Smith and Greenwood, JJ.