MATTER OF M.


250 A.D.2d 683 (1998)

672 N.Y.S.2d 759

In the Matter of Barbara M., a Child Alleged to be Permanently Neglected. New York Foundling Hospital, Respondent; Rhonda Denise M.C., Respondent; Jane M. Spinak, as Law Guardian, Appellant

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

May 11, 1998


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the facts and as a matter of discretion, without costs or disbursements, the petition is granted, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Kings County, for a dispositional hearing to determine the best interests of the child.

The subject child was born in 1992 with a positive toxicology for cocaine and placed in foster care. The record established that the child had no meaningful contact with her biological mother in...

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