Rose, J.
The parties, who lived together sporadically until July 2002, are the parents of a child born in 1998. In March 2003, in response to the father's petition for custody, Family Court issued a temporary order retaining custody with the mother and providing the father with visitation. The mother subsequently cross-petitioned for custody. When the father failed to appear for the second day of the custody hearing, after earlier failing to appear for a settlement...
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