Matter of Sellers v. Brown
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the maternal grandmother from an order of the Family Court, Queens County (Ashley Black, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated October 6, 2016. The order, after a hearing, dismissed her petition for custody of the subject child based on lack of standing.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
In this custody proceeding, the subject child lived with his mother and maternal grandmother from the time of his birth until the mother died on August 24, 2015. At the time of the mother’s death, she was engaged to be married to the child’s father. In November 2015, the grandmother…
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