MATTER OF ALEXANDER H. v. SHELTERING ARMS CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVS.

Docket Nos. B-7372/18, V-19756/18. Appeal No. 14161. Case No. 2020-01217.

196 A.D.3d 415 (2021)

146 N.Y.S.3d 779

2021 NY Slip Op 04201

In the Matter of Alexander H., an Infant, Appellant, v. Sheltering Arms Children and Family Services, Respondent, et al., Respondent.

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

Decided July 6, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce A. Young , Brooklyn, for appellant.

Sheltering Arms Children & Family Services, New York ( Dawn A. Shammas of counsel), for respondent.

Dawne A. Mitchell , The Legal Aid Society, New York ( Riti P. Singh of counsel), attorney for the child.

Concur—Acosta, P.J., Kapnick, Moulton, Scarpulla, JJ.


Petitioner argues that she should be awarded custody of the subject child because siblings should be kept together. However, the child has never lived with his siblings (or with her). He has lived with the same foster parent for his entire life and has developed a close emotional bond with the foster parent, who has attentively and consistently nurtured and cared for him. Awarding custody to petitioner would mean uprooting the child from the only home he has ever known and...

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