In re Shandra CC.

—Mercure, J.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Broome County (Hester, Jr., J.), entered March 26, 1996, which, inter alia, denied petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law article 7, for adoption of Shandra CC.

Respondent is the mother of Shandra CC., a child born in 1981 (hereinafter the child). From the time of her birth the child has lived with petitioner, her maternal grandmother. In July 1994, petitioner initiated proceedings for the adoption of the child. Due to respondent’s unwillingness to consent to the adoption, following petitioner’s…