N.Y. Domestic Relations Law § 71: Special proceeding or habeas corpus to obtain visitation rights in respect to certain infant siblings

§ 71. Special proceeding or habeas corpus to obtain visitation rights

in respect to certain infant siblings. Where circumstances show that

conditions exist which equity would see fit to intervene, a brother or

sister or, if he or she be a minor, a proper person on his or her behalf

of a child, whether by half or whole blood, may apply to the supreme

court by commencing a special proceeding or for a writ of habeas corpus

to have such child brought before such court, or may apply to the family

court pursuant to subdivision (b) of section six hundred fifty-one of

the family court act; and on the return thereof, the court, by order,

after due notice to the parent or any other person or party having the

care, custody, and control of such child, to be given in such manner as

the court shall prescribe, may make such directions as the best interest

of the child may require, for visitation rights for such brother or

sister in respect to such child.