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PEOPLE EX REL. ANTONINI v. L.

230 A.D.2d 869 (1996)

646 N.Y.S.2d 703

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Dante Antonini, et al., on Behalf of Daniel David L., Petitioners, v. Tracey L., Respondent. Hal B. Greenwald, Law Guardian, Appellant

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

August 19, 1996

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

Because the right of grandparents to petition to obtain visitation is entirely statutory and is in derogation of the common law, the legislative purposes and mandates of Family Court Act § 651 (b) must be strictly observed (see, e.g., Matter of Robert Paul P., 63 N.Y.2d 233, 239). Inasmuch as the foregoing statutory provision...

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