Karen D. v. Florence D.

—Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Philip C. Segal, J.), entered January 3, 1992, which, inter alia, after a hearing, awarded custody of petitioner’s *166child to respondent grandmother and liberal visitation to the petitioner, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The Family Court properly determined that respondent maternal grandmother demonstrated the existence of extraordinary circumstances which would drastically affect the welfare of the child were the natural parent to obtain custody (Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys, 40 NY2d 543, 546, 549). The record reveals that petitioner voluntarily left…