Jacqueline Sharon L. v. Pamela G.

Order, Family Court, New York County (Sara E Schechter, J.), entered on or about July 22, 2003, which, after a child custody hearing determination that petitioner maternal aunt was entitled to custody of appellant mother’s two children, Jason G. and Jasmine G., placed the children in her permanent custody, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the matter remanded for a full evidentiary hearing on the issue of whether extraordinary circumstances exist to justify divesting appellant mother of custody of her children.

On April 4, 2003, petitioner maternal aunt Jacqueline L., a…