Michelle V. v. Lillian P.

*273Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Alma Cordova, J.), entered on or about December 14, 2000, which denied the petition pursuant to Family Court Act article 6 for custody of the subject child and continued custody of the child with the child’s grandmother, respondent Lillian E, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Family Court properly determined that respondent paternal grandmother demonstrated the existence of extraordinary circumstances detrimental to the child’s welfare should petitioner, the natural parent, obtain custody (see Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys, 40 NY2d 543, 544 [1976]). The…