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Gallagher v. Dalton

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Dec 18, 2007
46 A.D.3d 746 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)

Opinion

No. 2007-00661.

December 18, 2007.

In a matrimonial action in which the parties were divorced by judgment entered May 11, 2006, the defendant appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Golia, J.), dated August 23, 2006, as, after a hearing, denied those branches of his motion which were to modify the visitation provisions set forth in a separation agreement dated December 8, 2003, which was incorporated into but not merged with the judgment of divorce, and to enjoin the plaintiff from, inter alia, taking the parties' child to visit her brother.

Philip L. Kamaras, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.

Marino Bernstein, P.C., Oyster Bay, N.Y. (Anthony DeCarolis of counsel), for respondent.

Before: Spolzino, J.P., Krausman, Carni and Dickerson, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The defendant failed to demonstrate that, since the parties entered into the separation agreement, there was a change of circumstances warranting a modification of that agreement's visitation provisions ( see Messinger v Messinger, 16 AD3d 562, 563; Giurco v Giurco, 281 AD2d 458, 459). Accordingly, the court correctly denied that branch of the defendant's motion which was to modify those provisions.

The defendant's remaining contentions are without merit.


Summaries of

Gallagher v. Dalton

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Dec 18, 2007
46 A.D.3d 746 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)
Case details for

Gallagher v. Dalton

Case Details

Full title:DONNA GALLAGHER, Respondent, v. WILLIAM DALTON, Appellant

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Dec 18, 2007

Citations

46 A.D.3d 746 (N.Y. App. Div. 2007)
2007 N.Y. Slip Op. 10097
847 N.Y.S.2d 480

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