Family Court correctly found that reasonable efforts by petitioner to return the child to respondent's home were no longer required (Family Ct Act § 1039-b [a]). Petitioner demonstrated that respondent's parental rights to three of the child's older siblings had been involuntarily terminated (id. § 1039-b [b] [6]), and respondent failed to show that providing reasonable efforts would be in the child's best interests, not contrary to the child's health and...
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