MATTER OF GARNYS v. WESTERGAARD

2017-03492, 2017-04667, 2017-04668. Docket No. V-12376-16.

158 A.D.3d 762 (2018)

71 N.Y.S.3d 554

2018 NY Slip Op 01188

In the Matter of MALGORZATA GARNYS, Appellant, v. KERMIT STANG WESTERGAARD et al., Respondents.

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

Decided February 21, 2018.


Ordered that the orders are affirmed, with one bill of costs.

In May 2015, the subject child's biological mother died of cancer. The mother was not married when the child was born in 2005, and a second parent is not listed on the child's birth certificate. Prior to her death, the mother executed a will providing that Kermit Stang Westergaard and Azadeh Houshyar Westgaard, the child's maternal uncle and aunt (hereinafter together the respondents), be appointed the...

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