Case Name: In the Matter of Florence Gross, Petitioner, and Edward Gross, Appellant, v. Sandra Siegman et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1996-04-29
Citations: 226 A.D.2d 724
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Florence Gross, Petitioner, and Edward Gross, Appellant, v Sandra Siegman et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 226
Pages: 724–724

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Florence Gross, Petitioner, and Edward Gross, Appellant, v Sandra Siegman et al., Respondents.
[642 NYS2d 44]

Opinion:
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.