Respondent's motion to vacate his default in appearing at the hearing on whether the petition to terminate his parental rights was properly served, which hearing was twice rescheduled when he failed to appear, was properly denied for failure to show a reasonable excuse for such repeated failure to appear (CPLR 5015 [a] [1]; see Matter of Jones,
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