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Matter of Carosi v. Bloom

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 18, 1996
225 A.D.2d 692 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996)

Opinion

March 18, 1996

Appeal from the Family Court, Westchester County (Cooney, J.).


Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

A natural parent may not be deprived of custody of his or her child absent "surrender, abandonment, persisting neglect, unfitness or other like extraordinary circumstances" (Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys, 40 N.Y.2d 543, 544; see, Matter of Male Infant L., 61 N.Y.2d 420). If such extraordinary circumstances are present, the court must determine the best interests of the child in awarding custody (see, Matter of Male Infant L., supra). Here, prior findings of sexual abuse and neglect against the appellant father supported the Family Court's finding that extraordinary circumstances were present. Further, in light of these extraordinary circumstances, the court's award of custody to the petitioners, who are the grandparents of the subject child, was not an improvident exercise of discretion (see, Matter of Antoinette M. v Paul Seth G., 202 A.D.2d 429). Mangano, P.J., Miller, Ritter and Hart, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Matter of Carosi v. Bloom

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 18, 1996
225 A.D.2d 692 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996)
Case details for

Matter of Carosi v. Bloom

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of PATRICIA CAROSI et al., Respondents, v. ALAN BLOOM…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Mar 18, 1996

Citations

225 A.D.2d 692 (N.Y. App. Div. 1996)
639 N.Y.S.2d 486

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