While the ultimate dispositional order was entered on default, the fact-finding order was not, inasmuch as the father's counsel actively participated and the court drew a negative inference from the father's failure to testify rather than continuing the hearing as an inquest (compare Matter of Iyana W. [Shamark W.],
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