Case ID: ad_168/html/0924-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Van Syckle, Appellant, v. Bertha Van Syckle, Respondent.
    
      Parent and child—right of father to custody.
    
    Appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the Supreme Court, made at Special. Term, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 25th day of March, 1915, denying his motion for the custody of an infant child.
   Per Curiam:

The father of a girl now five years of age obtained an absolute divorce, but the child was awarded to the mother, who, shortly upon remarriage, committed it to the maternal grandmother, to whom the court has now awarded it by amendment of the judgment. The father has some right to the custody of his child; the grandmother has none; the father is, like the grandmother, of good character; the father by reason of his income is better able to care for the child. There is no consideration related to the child’s welfare that requires that the grandmother be preferred. The order is reversed and the plaintiff’s motion granted, with a provision that the grandparents should not be denied reasonable opportunity to see the child. Jenks, P. J., Thomas, Carr, Stapleton and Putnam, JJ., concurred. Order reversed'and plaintiff’s motion granted, with a provision that the grandparents should not be denied reasonable opportunity to see the child.