MATTER OF ALEC B.


34 A.D.3d 1110 (2006)

824 N.Y.S.2d 475

In the Matter of ALEC B. and Others, Children Alleged to be Abandoned. COLUMBIA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Respondent; DAWN B., Appellant.

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

Decided November 22, 2006.


Rose, J.

Respondent's four minor children were removed from her custody in 2004 and placed in petitioner's care after a neglect petition was filed and she failed to appear at the hearing. She then made very little contact with petitioner or any of the children during the seven months following their removal, prompting petitioner to seek termination of her parental rights on the ground that her lack of contact constituted abandonment. Following a fact-finding hearing...

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