The preference of 14- and 11-year-old boys weighed heavily in a judge’s decision to allow them to stay in Rochester with their father instead of accompanying their mother to Washington, D.C., where she has become an assistant dean at Howard University.
“The constancy of their preference and the sound basis for itit is undisputed that they have friends, opportunity, activities and substantial academic suc-cess in Roch-esterre-quires that this court as-cribe some significant weight to their choice,” Monroe County Supreme Court Justice Richard Dollinger (See Profile) wrote in Byron v. Davis, 2008/9023.
