Opinion
CAF 02-01909.
November 21, 2003.
Appeal from an order of Family Court, Onondaga County (Rossi, J.), entered November 13, 2001, which dismissed the petition seeking modification and enforcement of the custody and visitation provisions of a prior order.
Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society, Syracuse (Robert P. Rickert of Counsel), for Petitioner-Appellant.
Before: Present: Green, J.P., Wisner, Hurlbutt, Kehoe, and Hayes, JJ.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
It is hereby ORDERED that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Family Court properly dismissed the petition seeking modification and enforcement of the custody and visitation provisions of a prior order. Approximately 10 months prior to the commencement of this proceeding, Family Court, Broome County, dismissed a proceeding seeking identical relief on the ground that it lacked jurisdiction over the proceeding under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act ([UCCJA] Domestic Relations Law former art 5-A). That ruling on the issue of jurisdiction "remains the law of the case, and it may not be contravened by a court of coordinate jurisdiction * * *. Having failed to take an appeal from the ruling, [petitioner] may not seek to directly overturn it" ( Grossman v. Meller, 213 A.D.2d 221, 224). Further, there is no question that South Carolina is the child's home state for UCCJA purposes ( see former § 75-d [1][a]), and the allegations of the petition are insufficient to support the court's exercise of jurisdiction under former section 75-d (1)(b) ( cf. Vernon v. Vernon, 100 N.Y.2d 960 [Sept. 19, 2003]).