§ 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.