Matter of Kyrah A.J.S. (Leonard S.)
2011 NY Slip Op 09463 [90 AD3d 1567]
December 23, 2011
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 1, 2012


In the Matter of Kyrah A.J.S., an Infant. Niagara County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Leonard S., Appellant.

—[*1] Patricia M. McGrath, Lockport, for respondent-appellant.

Susan M. Sussman, Niagara Falls, for petitioner-respondent.

Timothy D. Haseley, Attorney for the Child, Lockport, for Kyrah A.J.S.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Niagara County (John F. Batt, J.), entered May 20, 2010 in a proceeding pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b. The order, among other things, transferred guardianship and custody of the subject child to petitioner.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Smith, J.P., Fahey, Carni, Sconiers and Gorski, JJ.