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Ruling referred to the flag as a ‘symbol inflaming the already strained relationship between the parties’ in custody battle ( Scott Olson/Getty Images)
A New York district court ruled that a woman must remove a rock with a Confederate flag painted on it from her driveway, or may find it becomes a factor in a custody battle for her mixed-race child.
Justices in an appellate division of the state’s second-highest court in Albany ruled unanimously in a 5-0 decision that a couple would retain joint custody of their child.
However, the woman has until 1 June to remove the rock or, according to the court’s ruling, it could play a role in “any future best interests analysis” regarding the child, who was born in 2014 and attends school in Dryden, east of Ithaca.
By Dolewite
May 12, 2021
A judge has ruled that an Albany, New York mother must remove a rock that is painted with a confederate flag from her driveway, as it poses a threat to the well-being of her biracial child. Justice Stanley Pritzker has ruled in a 5-0 decision that the rock should be removed by June 1st or it could be a factor, into any future best interests analysis,” as it pertains to the child. The mother, Christie BB, as identified in court, says she’s never used racial slurs around her child or at all, however, the judge declared the rock as “a symbol inflaming the already strained relationship between the parties.” The child’s law guardian Jason Leifer told The Times-Union he was in favor of the court’s ruling, however, he says he’s unsure if the rock belongs to the mother. What’s going to have to happen is this if the issue is raised the court will need to hear evidence of the child how the child’s well-being is negatively affected by a parent
In a unanimous 5-0 ruling, justices in the Appellate Division of New York State s Supreme Court s Third Department, allowed a couple to retain joint custody of their biracial child but ordered the
Get Rid of Confederate Rock or Risk Custody of Multiracial Daughter, Court Tells Woman
Timothy Bella, Washington Post, May 7, 2021
A rock near a woman’s driveway in upstate New York could affect the custody case of her multiracial daughter. But it’s not the rock itself that’s potentially risking a mother’s custody of her child. It’s what’s decorated on the rock: The Confederate flag.
Appellate justices with the New York Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a Tompkins County woman to remove the Confederate flag-painted rock or risk a “change in circumstances” to the child custody case of her young daughter.
Judge rules woman must choose her Confederate flag or her biracial child
“Given that the child is of mixed race, it would seem apparent that the presence of the flag is not in the child s best interests. By
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Albany, N.Y., district court justices ruled last week a Confederate flag painted on a rock in a woman’s driveway could play a role in an ongoing battle for custody of her multiracial child.
An appellate division of the state’s second highest court ruled in a 5-0 decision a couple would retain joint custody of their child born in 2014.