Omotayo Orederu, Glenville, N.Y., for appellant. Barbara C. Kryszko, New York, N.Y., for respondent.
Karen P. Simmons, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Janet Neustaetter of counsel), attorney for the children.
In a family offense proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 8, the appeal is from an order of fact-finding, disposition, and protection of the Family Court, Kings County (Graham, J.), dated October 6, 2010, which, after a fact-finding and dispositional hearing, found that the appellant had committed certain family offenses and which, upon a finding of aggravating circumstances, directed the appellant to stay away from the petitioner and the parties' two youngest children for a period of five years.
ORDERED that the order of fact-finding, disposition, and protection is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
“The determination of whether a family offense was committed is a factual issue to be resolved by the Family Court, and its determinations regarding the credibility of witnesses are entitled to great weight on appeal” ( Matter of Genzen v. Genzen, 74 A.D.3d 1196, 1196, 902 N.Y.S.2d 425). Here, the record supports the Family Court's determination that the petitioner established, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the appellant committed certain family offenses, and also reveals the existence of aggravating circumstances justifying the Family Court's five-year order of protection with respect to the petitioner and the parties' two youngest children ( see Matter of Williams v. Maise, 85 A.D.3d 933, 925 N.Y.S.2d 839; Matter of Kaur v. Singh, 73 A.D.3d 1178, 900 N.Y.S.2d 895; Matter of Gonzalez v. Acosta, 73 A.D.3d 921, 901 N.Y.S.2d 332; Matter of Dell'Isola v. Dell'Isola, 19 A.D.3d 488, 796 N.Y.S.2d 242).
The appellant's remaining contentions are without merit. FLORIO, J.P., BALKIN, BELEN and CHAMBERS, JJ., concur.