ALBANY – A Family Court properly granted primary physical custody of a child to his father after the mother went through a period of absence and upheaval starting with her tour of duty in Iraq, an upstate appeals court has determined.
Tanya Towne’s stint in Iraq in 2004 and 2005 was validly considered as part of a sequence of events that resulted in her former husband, Richard S. Diffin Jr., gaining primary physical custody of their son, an Appellate Division, Third Department, panel concluded last week.
