Opinion
Submitted November 16, 2000
December 12, 2000.
In three proceedings pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b to terminate parental rights, the mother appeals from three "corrected" orders of disposition of the Family Court, Rockland County (Warren, J.), all dated October 14, 1998, which, after fact-finding and dispositional hearings, found the children to be permanently neglected, terminated her parental rights, and committed the children to the custody of the Rockland County Department of Social Services.
Ronald E. Helhoski, P.C., Middletown, N.Y., for appellant.
Patricia Zugibe, County Attorney, New City, N.Y. (Radhika Nagubandi of counsel), for respondent.
Jacqueline Sands, New City, N.Y., Law Guardian for the children (relying on brief of respondent).
Before: LAWRENCE J. BRACKEN, J.P., MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, WILLIAM D. FRIEDMANN GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that on the court's own motion, the appellant's notices of appeal from three orders, all dated August 25, 1998, are deemed premature notices of appeal from the corrected orders; and it is further,
ORDERED that the corrected orders of disposition are affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
A suspended judgment may be revoked if the court finds that a preponderance of the evidence adduced at a violation hearing establishes noncompliance with a condition of that judgment (see, Matter of Jennifer VV., 241 A.D.2d 622; Matter of Jennifer T., 224 A.D.2d 843, 844; Matter of Joshua Justin T., 208 A.D.2d 469; Matter of Israel R., 200 A.D.2d 498, 499; Matter of Grace Q., 200 A.D.2d 894, 89 5; Matter of Lawrence Clinton S., 186 A.D.2d 808, 809; Matter of Gerald M., 112 A.D.2d 6). The evidence presented at the violation hearing supports the Family Court's determination that the mother failed to satisfy certain conditions of the suspended judgments and that the termination of her parental rights was in the best interests of the children (see, Matter of A., 255 A.D.2d 510; Matter of Torrien Matthew McK., 253 A.D.2d 522; Matter of Orange County Dept. of Social Servs. [Jason Paul W.] v. Jeanne Z., 209 A.D.2d 703; Matter of Sharena C., 186 A.D.2d 249; Matter of Lawrence Clinton S., supra, at 809).
The mother's remaining contentions are without merit.