Matter of Dawn N. v. Schenectady County Dept. of Social Servs.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Egan Jr., J.
Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Schenectady County (Burke, J.), entered November 9, 2015, which, among other things, dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 6, for custody of the subject child.
Petitioner (hereinafter the grandmother) is the maternal grandmother of the subject child (born in 2010) and a resident of North Carolina. According to the grandmother, she has long been the child’s primary caregiver — except for brief periods of time when the child’s mother, respondent Jessica N. (hereinafter the…
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