Coles v. Sobers

In a child custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Queens County (DePhillips, J.), dated May 23, 1997, as, after a hearing, granted permanent custody of her two children to their maternal grandmother.

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

On appeal, the mother concedes that the children’s prolonged custody with their maternal grandmother constituted extraordinary circumstances sufficient for the court to proceed to a *544consideration…