In re Joshua A.

Mercare, J. P.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Greene County (Pulver, Jr., J.), entered July 26, 2000, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Social Services Law § 358-a, for approval of an instrument transferring care and custody of respondent’s child to petitioner.

In 1995, a Florida court found that respondent had neglected her son, Joshua (born in 1991), and ordered that he be placed with his maternal great aunt in New York (see, Matter of Melinda A. v Greene County Dept. of Social Servs., 278 AD2d 754). By order entered August 31, 1998, Family Court…