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MATTER OF JOSEPH

2019-14500. Docket Nos. A-1865-19, V-2505-10/19M.

194 A.D.3d 717 (2021)

2021 NY Slip Op 02798

In the Matter of Joseph. Amy K., Respondent, et al., Petitioner; Joseph A.S., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 1.). In the Matter of Joseph A. Scalia, Appellant, v. Amy Knox, Respondent. (Proceeding No. 2.).

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

Decided May 5, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas T. Keating , Dobbs Ferry, NY, for appellant.

Kevin M. MacKay , Poughkeepsie, NY, for petitioner-respondent in Proceeding No. 1 and respondent in Proceeding No. 2.

Thomas M. Gambino , Poughkeepsie, NY, attorney for the child.

Chambers, J.P., Austin, LaSalle and Wooten, JJ., concur.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

In May 2019, the mother and her husband filed a petition seeking to adopt the subject child, alleging that the father's consent to the adoption was not required because he had abandoned the child. Shortly thereafter, the father filed a petition seeking parental access with the child. After a hearing, the Family Court denied the father's petition and determined that the father's consent to the adoption...

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