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In re Azaleayanna S.G.-B.

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, New York.
Jul 1, 2016
141 A.D.3d 1105 (N.Y. App. Div. 2016)

Opinion

07-01-2016

In the Matter of AZALEAYANNA S.G.-B. and Rajahalee D.G.-B. Herkimer County Department of Social Services, Petitioner–Respondent;. Quaneesha S.G., Respondent–Appellant. (Appeal No. 2.)

John J. Raspante, Utica, for Respondent–Appellant. Jacquelyn M. Asnoe, Herkimer, for Petitioner–Respondent.


John J. Raspante, Utica, for Respondent–Appellant.

Jacquelyn M. Asnoe, Herkimer, for Petitioner–Respondent.

PRESENT: WHALEN, P.J., PERADOTTO, LINDLEY, DeJOSEPH, AND NEMOYER, JJ.

Opinion

MEMORANDUM:

Respondent mother appeals from an amended judgment terminating her parental rights with respect to the subject children on the ground of abandonment, contending that she had sufficient significant, meaningful communications with petitioner to demonstrate that she did not abandon the subject children. We reject that contention. A child is deemed abandoned where, for the period six months immediately prior to the filing of the petition for abandonment (see Social Services Law § 384–b [4 ][b] ), a parent “evinces an intent to forego his or her parental rights and obligations as manifested by his or her failure to visit the child and communicate with the child or [petitioner], although able to do so and not prevented or discouraged from doing so by [petitioner]” (§ 384–b [5 ][a]; see Matter of Angela N.S. [Joshua S.], 100 A.D.3d 1381, 1381–1382, 953 N.Y.S.2d 773 ). The mother concedes that she had no contact with the subject children during the relevant six-month period despite opportunities for visitation and, contrary to the mother's contention, her “minimal, sporadic [and] insubstantial contacts” with petitioner during that six-month period are insufficient to preclude a finding of abandonment (Matter of Nahiem

G., 241 A.D.2d 632, 633, 659 N.Y.S.2d 950 ; see Matter of Lamar LL. [Loreal MM.], 86 A.D.3d 680, 681, 927 N.Y.S.2d 185, lv. denied 17 N.Y.3d 712, 2011 WL 4835732 ).

It is hereby ORDERED that the amended judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.


Summaries of

In re Azaleayanna S.G.-B.

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, New York.
Jul 1, 2016
141 A.D.3d 1105 (N.Y. App. Div. 2016)
Case details for

In re Azaleayanna S.G.-B.

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of AZALEAYANNA S.G.-B. and Rajahalee D.G.-B. Herkimer County…

Court:Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, New York.

Date published: Jul 1, 2016

Citations

141 A.D.3d 1105 (N.Y. App. Div. 2016)
141 A.D.3d 1105
2016 N.Y. Slip Op. 5271

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