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.,
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