MATTER OF PRINZIVALLI v. KAELIN

2021-01100. 2021-01101. 2021-01102. Docket Nos. A-05009-19, A-05010-19, V-05365-16/19A, V-05366-16/19A.

200 A.D.3d 781 (2021)

160 N.Y.S.3d 268

2021 NY Slip Op 06849

In the Matter of Benjamin Michael Prinzivalli, Appellant, v. Dayna M. Kaelin et al., Respondents. (And Other Titles.)

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

Decided December 8, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Petito , Poughkeepsie, NY, for appellant.

Ostertag O'Leary Barrett & Faulkner, Poughkeepsie, NY ( Sharon M. Faulkner of counsel), for respondents.

Ronna L. DeLoe , Larchmont, NY, attorney for the children.

Austin, J.P., Miller, Wooten and Zayas, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the order of fact-finding and the orders of dismissal are affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The subject children, whose parents were never married, were four and six years old at the time private placement adoption proceedings were commenced, in 2019. The father had temporary custody of the subject children for an approximately four-month period in 2016. In the fall of that year, however, when the children were two and three years old, the father...

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