Opinion
2013-05-22
In the Matter of SELENA S. (Anonymous), also known as Selena B. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Edward J.B. (Anonymous), also known as Edward B. (Anonymous), also known as Edward B. (Anonymous), Sr., appellant. (Appeal No. 1). In the Matter of Edward J.B. (Anonymous), Jr., also known as Edward B. (Anonymous), Jr., also known as Edward B. (Anonymous), also known as Edward S. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Edward J.B. (Anonymous), also known as Edward B. (Anonymous), also known as Edward B. (Anonymous), Sr., appellant. (Appeal No. 2).
Lisa Lewis, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant. Carrieri & Carrieri, P.C., Mineola, N.Y. (Ralph R. Carrieri of counsel), for respondent Graham–Windham Services to Families and Children.
Lisa Lewis, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant. Carrieri & Carrieri, P.C., Mineola, N.Y. (Ralph R. Carrieri of counsel), for respondent Graham–Windham Services to Families and Children.
Steven Banks, New York, N.Y. (Tamara A. Steckler and Judith Stern of counsel), attorney for the children.
In related proceedings pursuant to Social Services Law § 384–b to terminate parental rights, the father appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of two orders of fact-finding and disposition of the Family Court, Kings County (Turbow, J.), both entered April 27, 2012 (one as to each child), as, upon determining, after a dispositional hearing, that his consent to the adoption of the subject children was not required and that he was not entitled to notice of any further proceedings concerning the children, including adoption proceedings, continued custody and guardianship of the children with the foster parent.
ORDERED that the orders are affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
In the orders appealed from, the Family Court, on stipulation of counsel, including counsel for the father, determined that, pursuant to Domestic Relations Law § 111(1)(d) and (e), the father's consent to the adoption of the subject children was not required. Accordingly the father's contentions that the court improperly terminated his parental rights on the grounds of abandonment and/or permanent neglect are not properly before us on this appeal, as no such findings were made by the Court.
Moreover, the father's contention concerning the dismissal of his petition for custody is not properly before this Court, as the notice of appeal does not reference the dismissal of his petition for custody or the docket number of that proceeding, and the order from which the father did appeal did not dismiss his petition for custody ( seeCPLR 5515[1]; Matter of Brandon M. [ Luis M.], 94 A.D.3d 520, 942 N.Y.S.2d 79;Matter of Kirdahy v. Scalia, 301 A.D.2d 525, 527, 753 N.Y.S.2d 524).
The father's remaining contention is without merit.