MATTER OF BISOH C. v. VALENTINE S.

11731-27697/12.

185 A.D.3d 409 (2020)

124 N.Y.S.3d 778

2020 NY Slip Op 03720

In the Matter of Bisoh C., Respondent, v. Valentine S., Deceased, Respondent, and Shamea L., Appellant.

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

Decided July 2, 2020.


The court properly found that the stepmother demonstrated the requisite extraordinary circumstances to be granted standing to petition for custody of the child (see Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys, 40 N.Y.2d 543 [1976]). The child and the stepmother resided with the child's father in the same household for approximately three years before the father died in 2012. After the father's death...

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