Matter of Jamal S. v. Kenneth S.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Jennifer Burtt, Ref.), entered on or about June 15, 2015, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied petitioner father’s petition for custody of the subject child, continued a prior order granting custody to respondent paternal grandfather, and granted only supervised visitation to the father, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The grandfather showed by a preponderance of the evidence that extraordinary circumstances existed, and that it was in the subject child’s best interest that he retain custody (see Matter of Bennett v…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bennett v. JeffreysNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
3Cited by1 opinion
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