The order finding that respondent abandoned the child and terminating his parental rights to the child was affirmed by this Court before the return date of respondent's motion to vacate the order (Matter of Toussaint Thoreau E. [Allen E.], 170 A.D.3d 551 [1st Dept 2019]). As the appeal resolved all the issues that respondent had raised in his motion, the doctrine of law of the case precluded Family Court from entertaining the motion (Massey v Byrne,
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