MATTER OF HICKEY v. SPARTA


307 A.D.2d 356 (2003)

762 N.Y.S.2d 817

In the Matter of ROSE HICKEY, Respondent, v. PAMELA SPARTA, Appellant.

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

Decided July 28, 2003.


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and the facts, with costs, and the petition is dismissed.

The petitioner, the child's maternal grandmother, was required to establish that she had standing by demonstrating the existence of circumstances under which "equity would see fit to intervene" (Domestic Relations Law § 72; see Matter of Emanuel S. v Joseph E., 78 N.Y.2d 178 [1991]; Matter of Horowitz v Kelly,...

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