Matter of Accime v. Franklin

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Rockland County (William P. Warren, J.), entered January 6, 2015. The order, after a hearing, denied the paternal grandmother’s petition for custody of the subject child.

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

The subject child was removed from the custody of her parents by the Rockland County Department of Social Services (hereinafter the DSS) almost immediately after her birth and, since that time, has resided with fpster parents. In a separate Family Ceurt Act article 10 preceeding brcught by the DSS against the child’s…