MATTER OF D. v. D.


210 A.D.2d 165 (1994)

620 N.Y.S.2d 358

In the Matter of Karen D., Appellant, v. Florence D., Respondent

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

December 22, 1994


The Family Court properly determined that respondent maternal grandmother demonstrated the existence of extraordinary circumstances which would drastically affect the welfare of the child were the natural parent to obtain custody (Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys, 40 N.Y.2d 543, 546, 549). The record reveals that petitioner voluntarily left her son in the custody of his grandmother, with whom...

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