Opinion
April 29, 1996
Appeal from the Family Court, Nassau County (Feiden, J.).
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 A.D.2d 637; Matter of Alison D. v. Virginia M., 77 N.Y.2d 651, 656). Balletta, J.P., Thompson, Santucci and Florio, JJ., concur.