Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
"[A]s between a parent and a nonparent, the parent has the superior right of custody that cannot be denied unless the nonparent establishes that the parent has relinquished that right due to surrender, abandonment, persistent neglect, unfitness, or other extraordinary circumstances" (Matter of Rudy v. Mazzetti,
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