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MATTER OF FAISON v. NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

2009-02780 (Docket No. V-110-09).

74 A.D.3d 1339 (2010)

903 N.Y.S.2d 254

In the Matter of DOROTHEA FAISON, Appellant, v. NASSAU COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES et al., Respondents.

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

Decided June 29, 2010.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The petitioner is not the biological grandmother of the subject child, and she is not a legal grandmother by virtue of adoption. She is, therefore, not the child's grandparent within the meaning of Domestic Relations Law § 72, which governs the standing of grandparents to seek custody or visitation, and has no right thereunder to seek either custody...

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