MATTER OF DUSTIN H. SEAMAN'S SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

2008-10284, 2008-10289 (Docket Nos. B-2340-00, B-2341-00)

68 A.D.3d 1112 (2009)

2009 NY Slip Op 9659

891 N.Y.S.2d 470

In the Matter of DUSTIN H. SEAMAN'S SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Respondent; PATRICIA B. Appellant, et al., Respondent. (Appeal No. 1.) In the Matter of REANNE B. SEAMAN'S SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, Respondent; PATRICIA B., Appellant, et al., Respondent. (Appeal No. 2.)

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

Decided December 22, 2009.


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

To terminate parental rights based upon permanent neglect, the petitioning agency must establish, by clear and convincing evidence, that the parent failed, for a period of more than one year following the date the child came into care, "substantially and continuously or repeatedly to maintain contact with or plan for the future of the child, although physically and...

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