How to Modify Child Custody in New York

This video features Carla Barone, a Family Law attorney based in New York.

NYC Divorce Attorney Carla Barone Explains

Video Transcript:

Rob Rosenthal:

What does a parent need to show to be able to modify child custody in New York? Let's ask New York city lawyer Carla Barone for this AskTheLawyers Quick Question.

Carla Barone: 

Child custody modifications becomes the moving parent who seeks to modify has to show a substantial change in circumstances that affects the well-being of the children, and so therefore, there has to be that showing of a substantial change before there can be modification. That is a threshold issue on the moving parent that the court is gonna make a determination on before getting to the substantive issues.

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