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MATTER OF ODUMS v. METCALF, SR.

276 A.D.2d 794 (2000)

715 N.Y.S.2d 337

In the Matter of MARY ODUMS, Respondent, v. JOHN METCALF, SR., Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided October 30, 2000.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

This appeal involves a custody dispute between the petitioner, the children's maternal grandmother, and the respondent, the children's father. "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 Carosi v Bloom, 225 A...

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