MATTER OF PHILIP S. SUFFOLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES


277 A.D.2d 458 (2000)

715 N.Y.S.2d 890

In the Matter of PHILIP S. SUFFOLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Appellant; THERESA M., Respondent.

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

Decided November 27, 2000.


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and the facts, with costs, the petition is granted, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Suffolk County, for further proceedings, including a dispositional hearing.

The Family Court improperly dismissed the instant petition to terminate the parental rights of the respondent mother Theresa M. At the fact-finding hearing, the petitioner Suffolk County Department of Social Services established by clear and convincing...

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