MATTER OF BISIGNANO v. WALZ


164 A.D.2d 317 (1990)

In the Matter of Janet Bisignano, Respondent, v. Elizabeth B. Walz, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

December 20, 1990


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ian R. Arcus (Jeffrey S. Berkun of counsel), for appellant.

David L. Gruenberg for respondent.

KANE, J. P., LEVINE, MERCURE and HARVEY, JJ., concur.


CASEY, J.

This appeal involves a custody dispute between a mother, respondent, and the maternal grandmother, petitioner, of a six-year-old girl. Since the dispute is between a parent and nonparent, extraordinary circumstances, such as surrender, abandonment, unfitness, persistent neglect, unfortunate or involuntary extended disruption of custody, or other equivalent but rare extraordinary circumstance, which...

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