MATTER OF MICHELLE V. v. LILLIAN P.


1 A.D.3d 272 (2003)

767 N.Y.S.2d 435

In the Matter of MICHELLE V., Appellant, v. LILLIAN P., Respondent.

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

November 25, 2003.


Family Court properly determined that respondent paternal grandmother demonstrated the existence of extraordinary circumstances detrimental to the child's welfare should petitioner, the natural parent, obtain custody (see Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys, 40 N.Y.2d 543, 544 [1976]). The record discloses that petitioner gave physical custody of the child to respondent and thereafter visited him irregularly at best, i.e., only when it...

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