Opinion
2014-08351, Docket Nos. N-13518-07, N-13519-07, N-13520-07, N-13521-07.
10-14-2015
In the Matter of ABIGAIL R. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, petitioner-respondent; Ishwardat R. (Anonymous), respondent-appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Rebecca R. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, petitioner-respondent; Ishwardat R. (Anonymous), respondent-appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 2) In the Matter of Jeremiah R. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, petitioner-respondent; Ishwardat R. (Anonymous), respondent-appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 3) In the Matter of Zachariah R. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, petitioner-respondent; Ishwardat R. (Anonymous), respondent-appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 4).
Larry S. Bachner, Jamaica, N.Y., for respondent-appellant. Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Pamela Seider Dolgow of counsel; Nora Wong on the brief), for petitioner-respondent. Seymour W. James, Jr., New York, N.Y. (Tamara A. Steckler and John A. Newbery of counsel), attorney for the children.
Larry S. Bachner, Jamaica, N.Y., for respondent-appellant.
Zachary W. Carter, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Pamela Seider Dolgow of counsel; Nora Wong on the brief), for petitioner-respondent.
Seymour W. James, Jr., New York, N.Y. (Tamara A. Steckler and John A. Newbery of counsel), attorney for the children.
Opinion Appeal from a permanency hearing order of the Family Court, Queens County (Craig Ramseur, R.), dated October 10, 2013. The permanency hearing order terminated the placement of the subject children in the custody of the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York and discharged the children to the custody of the mother. Assigned counsel has submitted a brief in accordance with Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493, in which he moves to be relieved of his assignment to prosecute this appeal.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
We are satisfied with the sufficiency of the brief filed by the father's assigned counsel pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493, and, upon an independent review of the record, we conclude that there are no nonfrivolous issues which could be raised on the appeal. Counsel's application for leave to withdraw as counsel is, therefore, granted (see Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 ; Matter of Giovanni S. [Jasmin A.], 89 A.D.3d 252, 931 N.Y.S.2d 676 ; People v. Paige, 54 A.D.2d 631, 387 N.Y.S.2d 399 ; cf. People v. Gonzalez, 47 N.Y.2d 606, 419 N.Y.S.2d 913, 393 N.E.2d 987 ).
MASTRO, J.P., LEVENTHAL, DUFFY and BARROS, JJ., concur.