MATTER OF GISELLE H.G.

10094.

176 A.D.3d 510 (2019)

110 N.Y.S.3d 667

2019 NY Slip Op 07482

In the Matter of Giselle H.G., Also Known as Giselle G., and Others, Infants. Vanessa G., Appellant; New York Foundling Hospital, Respondent, et al., Petitioner.

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

Decided October 17, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas H. Rieniger , New York, for appellant.

Daniel Gartenstein , Long Island City, for respondent.

Andrew J. Baer , New York, attorney for the child Giselle G.

Larry S. Bachner , New York, attorney for the child Dionne G.

Kenneth M. Tuccillo , Hastings on Hudson, attorney for the child Diavonni G.

Lewis S. Calderon , Jamaica, attorney for the child Charisma D.

Concur—Friedman, J.P., Renwick, Kapnick, Gesmer, Kern, JJ.


The Family Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the mother's motion to vacate, as she failed to present a reasonable excuse for her failure to appear at the fact-finding and dispositional hearings, and failed to provide a meritorious defense to the petition to terminate her parental rights (CPLR 5015[a][1]; Matter of Arianna-Samantha Lady Melissa S. [Carissa S.], 134 A.D.3d 582

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