Moseley v. White

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Tompkins County (Sherman, J.), entered May 26, 2009, which, among other things, granted petitioners’ application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, for custody of the subject children.

Petitioners are the maternal grandparents of the children who are at the center of this appeal, a boy (born in 2001) and a girl (born in 2003). They obtained physical custody of the children in April 2008 when their daughter, respondent Rebecca White (hereinafter the mother), asked them to come to Tennessee and retrieve the children after her arrest…