Legal Opinion
Matter of Pugz v. Smith
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 23, 2016No. 2016-00262PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the maternal grandmother from an order of the Family Court, Richmond County (Peter F. DeLizzo, J.), dated November 4, 2015. The order, in effect, without a hearing, granted the mother’s motion to dismiss the maternal grandmother’s petition for custody of the subject child.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
“ Tn a child custody dispute between a parent and a nonpar-ent, the parent has a superior right to custody that cannot be denied unless the nonparent establishes that the parent has relinquished that right due to surrender, abandonment, persistent…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Aylward v. BaileyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2012
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- Matter of Maddox v. MaddoxAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
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3Cited by4 opinions
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