Matter of Marriage of Van Driesche

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• rejecting an argument that circumstances detrimental to a child necessarily existed where a child was separated from his stepfather, the only father-figure the child had known, noting that the stepfather “presented no expert testimony to support his view”
• the mother did not unreasonably deny contact with the stepfather because her denial “appear[ed] reasonable in light of the acrimonious nature of the parties’ relationship and [the] child’s exposure to that hostility”

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