Azmara N.G. v. Jesse Stephanie S.

Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Sidney Gribetz, J.), entered on or about March 31, 2011, which dismissed the maternal great-aunt’s petition for custody of the subject children, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The evidence demonstrated that dismissal of the great-aunt’s petition for custody in favor of freeing the subject children to be adopted by their foster parents is in the best interests of the children (see Matter of Alpacheta C., 41 AD3d 285 [2007], lv denied 9 NY3d 812 [2007]). Members of the extended biological family do not have a preemptive statutory or…