It is hereby ordered that said appeal is unanimously dismissed without costs.
Memorandum: Respondent mother appeals from an order terminating her parental rights and freeing her children for adoption. The mother failed to appear at the dispositional hearing and her attorney, although present, elected not to participate in her absence. "Under those circumstances, we conclude that . . . the mother's unexplained failure to appear constituted a default" (Matter of...
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