Legal Opinion
Faison v. Nassau County Department of Social Services
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 29, 2010PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6 for custody of, or visitation with, the subject child, Dorothea Faison appeals from an order of the Family Court, Nassau County (Dane, J.), dated March 6, 2009, which, without a hearing, dismissed the petition.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The petitioner is not the biological grandmother of the subject child, and she is not a legal grandmother by virtue of adoption. She is, therefore, not the child’s grandparent within the meaning of Domestic Relations Law § 72, which governs the standing *1340of…
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- Gross v. SiegmanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
- In re JordanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2009
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