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In re Guardianship, Eric Rafael M

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
May 1, 2001
283 A.D.2d 178 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)

Opinion

May 1, 2001.

Order of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Rhoda Cohen, J.), entered on or about November 10, 1999, terminating respondent's parental rights to the subject child and committing the child's guardianship and custody to petitioner agency and the Commissioner of Social Services for the purposes of adoption, upon a fact-finding determination of abandonment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Judith Waksberg, for Guardianship.

Patricia W. Jellen, for Respondent-Appellant.

David H. Berman, for Petitioners-Respondents.

Before: Rosenberger, J.P., Nardelli, Tom, Wallach, Saxe, JJ.


Respondent, who was incarcerated throughout the six-month abandonment period (Social Services Law §§ 384-b[b],[5][a]), admits no personal contact with the child or agency during that period, urging instead vicarious contact through his wife. Such contact, even if it had occurred during the abandonment period, and there is no showing that it did, does not serve to avoid a finding of abandonment (see, Matter of Keani D., 265 A.D.2d 261). Nor does respondent's incarceration excuse his failure to make contact (see, id.). It is in the child's best interests to be adopted by his foster family.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.


Summaries of

In re Guardianship, Eric Rafael M

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
May 1, 2001
283 A.D.2d 178 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)
Case details for

In re Guardianship, Eric Rafael M

Case Details

Full title:IN RE GUARDIANSHIP, ERIC RAFAEL M., A DEPENDENT CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: May 1, 2001

Citations

283 A.D.2d 178 (N.Y. App. Div. 2001)
724 N.Y.S.2d 592