MATTER OF JANCZUK v. JANCZUK


305 A.D.2d 680 (2003)

760 N.Y.S.2d 222

In the Matter of JADWIGA JANCZUK, Appellant-Respondent, v. JOLANTA JANCZUK, Respondent-Appellant.

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

Decided May 27, 2003.


Ordered that the order is modified, on the law, by deleting the provision thereof holding the mother in civil contempt of court; as so modified, the order is affirmed insofar as appealed and cross-appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

A biological parent may not be deprived of custody "absent surrender, abandonment, persisting neglect, unfitness or other like extraordinary circumstances" (Matter of Bennett v...

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