The court properly found that respondent father's presumptive entitlement to the custody of his son was overcome by petitioner's showing of extraordinary circumstances based upon the facts that the father had never assumed a primary parental role in the child's life, had not obtained adequate housing even though the matter was pending for about one year and had failed to contribute support for his son, and the child was afraid of him (see Matter of Jessica Marie C. [Anthony...
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