MATTER OF O.


249 A.D.2d 233 (1998)

672 N.Y.S.2d 316

In the Matter of Oneka O. and Others, Children Alleged to be Abandoned. Leonard F., Appellant; Family Support Systems Unlimited, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

April 30, 1998


We defer to Family Court's findings, based largely on witness credibility, that during the six-month abandonment period respondent made only one "isolated" attempt to contact the agency, by way of a telephone call to the agency from his prison counselor inquiring into the possibility of the children visiting respondent at his prison facility. That finding is sufficient to support the conclusion of abandonment, especially where, as here, there is no record evidence of any...

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