MATTER OF JOVANTAY U.


298 A.D.2d 641 (2002)

749 N.Y.S.2d 103

In the Matter of JOVANTAY U. and Another, Children Alleged to be Abandoned. CHEMUNG COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Respondent; KIAWAUN U., Appellant.

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

Decided October 17, 2002.


Carpinello, J.

Respondent is the father of two young children (born in 1995 and 1996) who were placed in petitioner's care in April 1998 after the filing of a neglect petition against their mother with whom they resided. Although respondent first learned that the children were in foster care in early 1999, he made no effort to contact them at that time. Rather, his initial efforts at contact occurred in April 2000, when he left two telephone messages for their caseworker...

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