MATTER OF M.J.

Docket No. NN-05192-94/19. Appeal No. 338. Case No. 2022-01189.

216 A.D.3d 601 (2023)

189 N.Y.S.3d 511

2023 NY Slip Op 02854

In the Matter of M.J. and Others, Children Alleged to be Abandoned. Felicia J., Appellant; Administration for Children's Services, Respondent.

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

Decided May 30, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, New York ( Karla Alexandra Vergara Pérez and Michael Weinstein of counsel), for appellant.

Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix , Corporation Counsel, New York ( Josh Liebman of counsel), for respondent.

Dawne A. Mitchell , The Legal Aid Society, New York ( Amy Hausknecht of counsel), attorney for the children.

Concur—Kern, J.P., Friedman, Kennedy, Scarpulla, Pitt-Burke, JJ.


Order, Family Court, New York County (Clark V. Richardson, J.), entered on or about February 24, 2022, which, after a fact-finding hearing, found that respondent mother neglected the subject children, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

A preponderance of the evidence supports the finding that the children's physical and mental condition has been impaired or is in imminent danger of becoming impaired as a result of the...

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