Opinion
2566.
Decided December 23, 2003.
Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Clark Richardson, J.), entered on or about May 17, 2000, which denied respondent mother's motion to vacate an order of disposition granting full custody of the subject child to the maternal grandparents, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Marcia Egger, for Respondent-Appellant.
Lawrence A. Salvato, for Petitioner-Respondent.
Stacy Laine Matthews, for Petitioner-Respondent.
Marcia Egger, for Respondent-Appellant.
Lawrence A. Salvato, for Respondent-Appellant.
Before: Buckley, P.J., Sullivan, Ellerin, Williams, Gonzalez, JJ.
The order of disposition was granted on February 9, 2000, on grounds of child abuse, when respondent refused to appear at the hearing, which had been ordered after respondent's prior default at the earlier dispositional hearing had been vacated. On the motion to vacate, the record amply supports the court's finding that respondent willfully failed to appear for the hearing without reasonable excuse (Family Ct Act § 1042; see also Matter of Ashley Marie M., 287 A.D.2d 333; Matter of "Male" Jones, 128 A.D.2d 403). We have considered all of respondent's contentions on this appeal and find them to be without merit.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.