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MATTER OF DIN DOROTHY EMMA N.

265 A.D.2d 218 (1999)

696 N.Y.S.2d 449

In the Matter of DIN DOROTHY EMMA N. and Others, Children Alleged to be Abandoned. LAWRENCE G., Appellant; LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES et al., Respondents.

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

Decided October 19, 1999.

We decline to disturb the Family Court's findings, based largely on its assessment of witness credibility, that respondent father failed to stay in contact with his children during the relevant statutory period, and that he was not discouraged or prevented from doing so (see, Matter of Shalena Lee C., 197 A.D.2d 404). Also adequately supported in the record was Family Court's ensuing dispositional determination that it was in the...

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