Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1996

Gross v. Siegman

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided April 29, 1996

226 A.D.2d 724; 642 N.Y.S.2d 44; 1996 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4704

Cases that cite this one

10 later published cases cite this decision.

Peters v. Costello (Pa. 2005)
Matter of Montes v. Sands (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2019)
Matter of Mary M. v. Tremaine L.M. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2017)
Matter of B.S. (B.T.) (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2017)
B.S. v. B.T. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2017)
B.S. v. B.T. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2017)
Chifrine v. Bekker (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2012)
Chifrine v. Bekker (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2012)
Faison v. Nassau County Department of Social Services (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2010)
In re Jordan (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2009)

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Opinion of the Court

In a proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law § 72 to obtain visitation rights, the petitioner Edward Gross appeals from an order of the Family Court, Nassau County (Feiden, J.), dated June 22, 1995, which granted the motion of the respondents to dismiss that branch of the proceeding which sought visitation rights for the petitioner Edward Gross.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The petitioner Edward Gross is not the biological grandfather of the children with whom he seeks visitation rights and he is not a legal grandparent by virtue of adoption. Accordingly, he is not the children’s grandparent within the meaning of Domestic Relations Law § 72 and has no right thereunder to seek visitation (see, Matter of Hantman v Heller, 213 AD2d 637; Matter of Alison D. v Virginia M., 77 NY2d 651, 656). Balletta, J. P., Thompson, Santucci and Florio, JJ., concur.

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