Order unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Memorandum:
After finding that the natural parent of an infant child was unfit to care for the child and that it was in the best interests of the child to be in the custody of her paternal grandfather, Family Court ordered custody of the child to the grandfather. "The State may not deprive a parent of the custody of a child absent surrender, abandonment, persisting neglect, unfitness or other like extraordinary circumstances...
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