MATTER OF GIBSON v. SKRINE


262 A.D.2d 483 (1999)

691 N.Y.S.2d 326

In the Matter of BARBARA GIBSON, Respondent, v. CARMEN SKRINE, Appellant.

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

Decided June 14, 1999.


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

The father challenges the Family Court's award of custody of his two minor children to the maternal grandmother, who has cared for the children since 1994. We reject the father's contention that the award was not supported by a showing of "extraordinary circumstances" (see, Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys, 40 N.Y.2d 543; Matter of...

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