In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Freundlich, J.), dated March 7, 2011, as, after a hearing, granted the father’s petition to modify a prior order of custody dated April 5, 2006, so as to award him sole custody of the subject children.
Ordered that the order dated March 7, 2011, is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
“ ‘Modification of an existing custody arrangement is permissible only upon a showing that there has been a change in cir
Here, the Family Court’s determination that there had been a change in circumstances since the issuance of the prior order of custody, and that it was in the subject children’s best interests to award sole custody of the children to the father, is supported by a sound and substantial basis in the record and, thus, will not be disturbed (see Matter of Buxenbaum v Fulmer, 82 AD3d at 1224; Matter of Skeete v Hamilton, 78 AD3d at 1188). While this determination was not consistent with the position of the attorney for the children, that position, although entitled to some weight, was not dispositive (see Matter of Haimovici v Haimovici, 73 AD3d 1058 [2010]). Rivera, J.E, Leventhal, Roman and Cohen, JJ., concur.