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MATTER OF LENORA D. v. RICHARD J.R.

9985.

176 A.D.3d 432 (2019)

107 N.Y.S.3d 670

2019 NY Slip Op 07143

In the Matter of Lenora D., Respondent, v. Richard J.R., Appellant, et al., Respondent.

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

Decided October 3, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Reed, Jr. , White Plains, for appellant.

Larry S. Bachner , New York, for respondent.

Janet Neustaetter , The Children's Law Center, Brooklyn ( Laura Solecki of counsel), attorney for the child.

Concur—Acosta, P.J., Renwick, Manzanet-Daniels, Singh, JJ.

Petitioner grandmother demonstrated the requisite extraordinary circumstances to establish her standing to seek custody of the child after her mother died unexpectedly (see Matter of Suarez v Williams, 26 N.Y.3d 440 [2015]; Domestic Relations Law § 72[2][a]). For about four years before the mother's death in 2017, the mother and the child had lived in the grandmother's household, and the mother and grandmother together provided...

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