MATTER OF ISIAH M.D.O.

Docket Nos. B-3305/19, AS-9045/19. Appeal No. 14980. Case No. 2020-03047.

201 A.D.3d 440 (2022)

156 N.Y.S.3d 749

2022 NY Slip Op 00050

In the Matter of Isiah M.D.O., Also Known as Isiah N. and Another, an Infant. Good Shepherd Services, Respondent; Yael M.D.O., Appellant.

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

Decided January 6, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Reed, Jr. , White Plains, for appellant.

Geoffrey P. Berman , Larchmont, for respondent.

Dawne A. Mitchell , The Legal Aid Society, New York ( Claire V. Merkine of counsel), attorney for the child.

Concur—Kern, J.P., Mazzarelli, Gesmer, González, Higgitt, JJ.


Clear and convincing evidence that respondent had no contact with the child or the agency during the six months preceding the filing of the petition raised a presumption that she intended to forego her parental rights to the child, and respondent failed to rebut the presumption (see Social Services Law § 384-b[5][a]; Matter of Michael T.J.K. [Alicia R.], 168 A.D.3d 545 [1st Dept 2019]).

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