Appeal from an order of Family Court, Oneida County (Cook, J.), entered July 9, 2002, which granted the petition and found respondent in contempt of court and modified the visitation schedule set forth in a prior order by awarding petitioner additional visitation with her grandchild.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously reversed on the law without costs and the matter is remitted to Family Court, Oneida County, for further proceedings in accordance with the following memorandum: Respondent father appeals from an order granting the petition of the child’s maternal grandmother seeking to find respondent in contempt of court based on his violation of a prior order and modifying the visitation schedule set forth in that prior order by awarding petitioner additional visitation with the child. We agree with respondent that reversal is required based on Family Court’s failure to comply with Domestic Relations Law former § 75-g. Pursuant to Domestic Relations Law former § 75-g (1), a New York court with jurisdiction in a child custody proceeding is not permitted to exercise that jurisdiction if a proceeding is pending in another jurisdiction and that proceeding has not been stayed (see generally Mazur v Mazur, 207 AD2d 61, 66-67 [1994], lv denied 85 NY2d 803 [1995]). Here, it is undisputed that respondent filed