Case Name: In the Matter of Mervaline Barksdale, Respondent, v. Erroll Medina, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-05-04
Citations: 272 A.D.2d 78
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Mervaline Barksdale, Respondent, v Erroll Medina, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 272
Pages: 78–78

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Mervaline Barksdale, Respondent, v Erroll Medina, Appellant.
[707 NYS2d 322]

Opinion:
—Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Clark Richardson, J.), entered on or about July 9, 1999, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by respondent father's brief, denied respondent's motion to vacate a prior order, same court (Marjory Fields, J.), entered on or about May 20, 1999, temporarily changing the subject child's custody from respondent to petitioner maternal grandmother upon a finding of extraordinary circumstances and directing a hearing on the child's best interests, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Respondent's arrest on weapons charges constituted extraordinary circumstances justifying a temporary change of custody pending a hearing on the child's best interests. Concur — Sullivan, P. J., Nardelli, Tom, Wallach and Lerner, JJ.