Matter of Julia M.G. (Trinidad G.)

Matter of Julia M.G. (Trinidad G.) 2015 NY Slip Op 06344 Decided on July 29, 2015 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on July 29, 2015 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
MARK C. DILLON, J.P.
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS
LEONARD B. AUSTIN
SANDRA L. SGROI, JJ.
2014-09021
(Docket No. G-915-13)

[*1]In the Matter of Julia M. G. (Anonymous).

and

Trinidad G. (Anonymous), respondent; Hicksville Union Free School District, intervenor-appellant.

Guercio & Guercio, LLP, Farmingdale, N.Y. (Christopher F. Mestecky and Anthony J. Fasano of counsel), for intervenor-appellant.

Carol J. Lewisohn, Lynbrook, N.Y., for respondent.

John M. Zenir, Westbury, N.Y., attorney for the child.

DECISION & ORDER

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Nassau County (Elaine Jackson Stack, J.), dated August 5, 2014. The order granted the petition of Trinidad G. for guardianship of the subject child.

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

Contrary to the intervenor-appellant's contention, the Family Court's determination that the subject child's best interests would be served by the appointment of the petitioner, who is the child's maternal aunt, as her guardian has a sound and substantial basis in the record (see Matter of Deven Meza F. [Maria F.-Oneyda M.], 108 AD3d 701, 702; cf. Matter of Diego F. [Magno V.], 84 AD3d 1373).

The intervenor-appellant's remaining contentions are without merit.

DILLON, J.P., CHAMBERS, AUSTIN and SGROI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court