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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Christopher P. Fowler, Appellant, v Valerie M. VanGee, Respondent.
    [24 NYS3d 564]
   — Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Wayne County (Daniel G. Barrett, J.), entered December 16, 2014 in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6. The order dismissed the petition.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Petitioner father appeals from an order dismissing his petition seeking to modify a prior order of visitation. Contrary to the father’s contention, we conclude that Family Court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing his petition without conducting a hearing. A hearing is not required whenever a parent seeks modification of a visitation order and, here, the father “failed to make a sufficient evidentiary showing of a change in circumstances to require a hearing” (Matter of Consilio v Terrigino, 114 AD3d 1248, 1248 [2014] [internal quotation marks omitted]).

Present — Whalen, P.J., Smith, Centra, Carni and Scudder, JJ.