Matter of Geter v. Gray

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Orange County (Debra J. Kiedaisch, J.), entered May 17, 2015. The order, insofar as appealed from, after a hearing, granted the petition of the paternal grandmother for sole custody of the subject child.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

“ Tn a custody proceeding between a parent and a nonpar-ent, the parent has the superior right to custody that cannot be denied unless the nonparent establishes that the parent has relinquished that right due to surrender, abandonment, persisting neglect,…