MATTER OF GENESIS H.

Docket No. Nn-11170/19. Appeal No. 13883. Case No. 2020-03421.

194 A.D.3d 570 (2021)

144 N.Y.S.3d 351

2021 NY Slip Op 03254

In the Matter of Genesis H., an Infant. Marquella M., Respondent; Celestine C., Appellant; Administration for Children's Services, Respondent.

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

Decided May 20, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel X. Robinson , New York, for appellant.

James E. Johnson , Corporation Counsel, New York ( Rebecca L. Visgaitis of counsel), for respondent.

Karen Freedman , Lawyers for Children, New York ( Shirim Nothenberg of counsel), attorney for the child.

Concur— Renwick, J.P., Manzanet-Daniels, Mazzarelli, Mendez, JJ.


Interested party-appellant is the child's maternal grandmother, a Georgia resident, who had a legal custody order in effect, domesticated in Georgia, at the time that the child was removed from respondent mother's home in New York and remanded into the custody of petitioner agency. In the instant order, Family Court invoked the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) (codified at Social Services Law § 374-a) and denied the grandmother's motion for the...

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