Parliament v. Harris

—In a custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the father appeals from an order of the Family Court, Rockland County (Garvey, J.), entered June 22, 1998, which granted permanent custody of his son, Keith Harris; to the petitioner.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

We agree with the Family Court that the requisite “extraordinary circumstances” exist to justify depriving the appellant of custody of his son, Keith Harris (see, Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys, 40 NY2d 543, 544), and that Keith’s best interests lie in granting custody to the…