MATTER OF KIHONA U.

531692.

200 A.D.3d 1425 (2021)

160 N.Y.S.3d 424

2021 NY Slip Op 07328

In the Matter of Kihona U., Alleged to be an Abandoned Child. Chemung County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Britian MM., Appellant.

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

Decided December 23, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Hammond , Cooperstown, for appellant.

M. Hyder Hussain , County Attorney, Elmira ( Mark H. Smith of counsel), for respondent.

Pamela B. Bleiwas , Ithaca, attorney for the child.

Garry, P.J., Lynch, Aarons and Pritzker, JJ., concur.


Respondent is the father of the subject child (born in 2018), who has been in petitioner's custody since her birth. Respondent was adjudicated to be the father of the child in March 2019. In September 2019, petitioner commenced this proceeding to terminate respondent's parental rights based on abandonment. Following a fact...

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