Legal Opinion
Bisignano v. Walz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 20, 1990PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Casey, J.
This appeal involves a custody dispute between a mother, respondent, and the maternal grandmother, petitioner, of a six-year-old girl. Since the dispute is between a parent and nonparent, extraordinary circumstances, such as surrender, abandonment, unfitness, persistent neglect, unfortunate or involuntary extended disruption of custody, or other equivalent but rare extraordinary circumstance, which would drastically affect the welfare of the child must be shown before the courts may inquire into the best interest of the child and order a custodial disposition on…
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