MATTER OF SHAWN P. WESTCHESTER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES


1 A.D.3d 519 (2003)

767 N.Y.S.2d 237

In the Matter of SHAWN P. WESTCHESTER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Respondent; ENDELL P., Appellant.

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

November 17, 2003.


Ordered that the order of fact-finding and disposition is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The Family Court properly determined that there was clear and convincing proof of the mother's abandonment of her child during the six-month period before the filing of the petition, in view of the total absence of contact between her and the child during that period (see Social Services Law § 384-b [5] [a], [b]; Matter of Derrick J.,

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