In re Chartasia H.

The evidence demonstrated that denial of the paternal grandmother’s petition for custody in favor of freeing the subject *577child to be adopted by the foster mother was in the best interests of the child (see Matter of Luz Maria V., 23 AD3d 192, 193 [2005], lv denied 6 NY3d 710 [2006]). In the year prior to the dispositional hearing, the grandmother, who has no preemptive statutory or constitutional right to custody (Matter of Alma R. v Ruth M., 237 AD2d 127 [1997], lv dismissed 90 NY2d 935 [1997]), lived several hundred miles away, had only seen the child two or three times and had not seen her…