Opinion
Submitted June 2, 2000
July 26, 2000.
Eric Dubinsky, Carle Place, N.Y., for appellant.
Christine M. Pirotin, Sound Beach, N.Y., respondent pro se.
Before: SONDRA MILLER, J.P., WILLIAM D. FRIEDMANN, DANIEL F. LUCIANO ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (McNulty, J.), entered May 10, 1999, as awarded custody of the parties' two children to the defendant.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The Supreme Court's determination that it was in the best interests of the children to award custody to the defendant has a sound and substantial basis in the record (see, Eschbach v. Eschbach, 56 N.Y.2d 167; Dodaro v. Dodaro, ___ A.D.2d ___ [2d Dept., Feb. 14, 2000]; Fanelli v. Fanelli, 215 A.D.2d 718; Canazon v. Canazon, 215 A.D.2d 652; Giatras v. Giatras, 202 A.D.2d 389, 390).