Robinson v. McKenzie

—In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 8, the mother appeals from an order of the Family Court, Kings County (Turbow, J.), dated February 14, 2000, which, after a hearing, awarded custody of the child to the paternal grandmother and awarded the mother supervised visitation.

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

"A * * * parent may not be deprived of custody of his or her child absent ‘surrender, abandonment, persisting neglect, unfitness or other like extraordinary circumstances’ ” (Matter of Carosi v Bloom, 225 AD2d 692, quoting Matter…