Matter of Smith v. Cooks
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the maternal grandmother from an order of the Family Court, Nassau County (Ellen R. Greenberg, J.), dated October 28, 2015. The order, without a hearing, granted the father’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.
In August 2015, the petitioner, who is the subject child’s maternal grandmother, filed a petition seeking custody of the child. The petitioner alleged that the child’s mother and father had joint legal custody of the child, with residential custody to the…
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