It is hereby ordered that the amended order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Family Court properly granted respondent-petitioner father's petition seeking sole custody of the parties' children. The court's determination following a hearing that the best interests of the children would be served by an award of sole custody to the father is entitled to great deference (see Eschbach v Eschbach,
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