Judge Orders New York Woman to Remove Confederate Flag or Risk Custody of Biracial Child [View all]
A judge recently ordered a New York woman to remove a rock decorated with a Confederate flag from her residence or risk losing custody of her biracial child.
In a 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 mother to remove the rock featuring the Confederate flag by June 1.
"As such, while recognizing that the First Amendment protects the mother's right to display the flag, if it is not removed by June 1, 2021, its continued presence shall constitute a change in circumstances and Family Court shall factor this into any future best interests analysis," Justice Stanley Pritzker wrote in the ruling on May 6.
According to the ruling, the parents, who were only identified as Christie and Isiah, were ordered to have joint custody of the child in 2017, but when an attorney for the child recommended that the mother's home should be the child's primary residence, the father appealed.
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