It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum:
On appeal from an order terminating his parental rights on the ground of permanent neglect and freeing his child for adoption, respondent father contends that Family Court denied him the right to due process by conducting the dispositional hearing in his absence. Because "[t]he child whose guardianship and custody is at stake also has a fundamental right...
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