Opinion
February 9, 1998
Appeal from the Family Court, Kings County (Hepner, J.).
Ordered that the orders are affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The Family Court properly determined that there was clear and convincing proof of the putative biological father's abandonment of his three children for the six-month period immediately prior to the filing of the petition ( see, Social Services Law § 384-b [b]). The evidence that he visited with the children once during the six-month period prior to the filing of the petition was insufficient to avoid the termination of his parental rights ( see, Matter of Richard X., 226 A.D.2d 762; Matter of Crystal C., 219 A.D.2d 601, Matter of Orange County Dept. of Social Servs. [Christine S.], 203 A.D.2d 367.
The appellant's remaining contentions are without merit.
Miller, J.P., O'Brien, Copertino and McGinity, JJ., concur.