MATTER OF DESTINY F.S.J.

2022-08947, 2022-08949, 2022-08951. Docket Nos. B-13094-18, B-13095-18, B-13096-18.

221 A.D.3d 602 (2023)

198 N.Y.S.3d 748

2023 NY Slip Op 05501

In the Matter of Destiny F. S. J. SCO Family of Services, Respondent; Elio F. S., Appellant, et al., Respondent. (Proceeding No. 1.) In the Matter of Leah F.S.J. SCO Family of Services, Respondent; Elio F.S., Appellant, et al., Respondent. (Proceeding No. 2.) In the Matter of Melady F.S.J. SCO Family of Services, Respondent; Elio F.S., Appellant, et al., Respondent. (Proceeding No. 3.)

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

Decided November 1, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Herzfeld , New York, NY, for appellant.

Leventhal Mullaney & Blinkoff, LLP, Roslyn, NY ( Jeffrey Blinkoff of counsel), for petitioner-respondent.

Twyla Carter , New York, NY ( Dawne A. Mitchell and Amy Hausknecht of counsel), attorney for the children.

Dillon, J.P., Chambers, Christopher and Warhit, JJ., concur.


In related proceedings pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b, the father appeals from three orders of fact-finding and disposition of the Family Court, Queens County (Monica Shulman, J.) (one as to each child), all dated October 13, 2022. The orders of fact-finding and disposition, after fact-finding and dispositional hearings, and upon the father's failure to appear at the continued fact-finding hearing and the dispositional hearing, found that he permanently neglected...

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