MATTER OF LEONIDES M.M.

2020-00553. Docket No. B-6177-18.

189 A.D.3d 1242 (2020)

134 N.Y.S.3d 234

2020 NY Slip Op 07576

In the Matter of Leonides M.M. Children's Aid, Respondent; Melissa L.D., Appellant.

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

Decided December 16, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Cardinale, Brooklyn, NY, for appellant, and appellant pro se.

Rosin Steinhagen Mendel, PLLC, New York, NY ( Melissa Wagshul of counsel), for respondent.

Janet E. Sabel , New York, NY ( Dawne A. Mitchell , Claire V. Merkine , and Marisa Filupeit of counsel), attorney for the child.

Rivera, J.P., Hinds-Radix, Duffy and Brathwaite Nelson, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the order dated January 16, 2020, is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

In November 2018, the petitioner commenced this proceeding pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b to terminate the mother's parental rights to the subject child, who had been living in foster care since the child's birth in November 2017. In July 2019, the mother failed to appear at a fact-finding and dispositional hearing, and the Family Court conducted an inquest at...

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