MATTER OF PAMELA S.S. v. CHARLES E. JR.


280 A.D.2d 999 (2001)

720 N.Y.S.2d 669

In the Matter of PAMELA S. S. et al., Respondents, v. CHARLES E., JR., Appellant, et al., Respondent.

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

Decided February 7, 2001.


Order unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum:

Family Court properly awarded custody of respondent-father's (respondent) son to petitioners, respondent's sister and her husband. "[T]ransfer of custody from a parent to a nonparent requires a showing of extraordinary circumstances justifying the court's intervention, followed by a showing that an award of custody to the nonparent is in the child's best interests...

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