Legal Opinion
Ruth L. v. Clemese Theresa J.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 21, 2013PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Myrna Martinez-Perez, J.), entered on or about June 27, 2011, which, inter alia, granted custody of the subject child to petitioner paternal grandmother, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
We reject respondent mother’s argument that the court did not have jurisdiction over this custody proceeding because New *555York is not the child’s home state. The child lived in New York continuously with his mother, his father and his paternal grandmother from the age of about two weeks until he was almost six months old. Contrary to respondent’s contention, his absence…
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