It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is reversed on the law without costs, the petition is granted and custody is awarded to petitioner.
Memorandum:
We agree with petitioner, the child's biological mother, that Family Court erred in awarding custody of her child to respondent, a nonrelative, because respondent failed to demonstrate the existence of extraordinary circumstances (see generally Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys...
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