MATTER OF SMITH v. COOKS

2015-12057, V-9102-15.

148 A.D.3d 814 (2017)

2017 NY Slip Op 01701

49 N.Y.S.3d 158

In the Matter of SHARON V. SMITH, Appellant, v. KENNETH COOKS, Respondent, et al., Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided March 8, 2017.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

In August 2015, the petitioner, who is the subject child's maternal grandmother, filed a petition seeking custody of the child. The petitioner alleged that the child's mother and father had joint legal custody of the child, with residential custody to the mother, but that the mother was expected to shortly begin serving a term of incarceration. The father opposed the petition. Following two court...

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