Opinion
02-22-2017
In the Matter of THOMAS C.G. (Anonymous). Nassau County Department of Social Services, respondent; Thomas J.G. (Anonymous), appellant. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Nicholas M.G. (Anonymous). Nassau County Department of Social Services, respondent; Thomas J.G. (Anonymous), appellant. (Proceeding No. 2) In the Matter of Matthew T.G. (Anonymous). Nassau County Department of Social Services, respondent; Thomas J.G. (Anonymous), appellant. (Proceeding No. 3) In the Matter of Brandon D.G. (Anonymous). Nassau County Department of Social Services, respondent; Thomas J.G. (Anonymous), appellant. (Proceeding No. 4).
Jan Murphy, Huntington, NY, for appellant. Carnell T. Foskey, County Attorney, Mineola, NY (Christi M. Kunzig and Robert F. Van der Waag of counsel), for respondent. Janice Peretzman, Garden City, NY, attorney for the children.
Jan Murphy, Huntington, NY, for appellant.
Carnell T. Foskey, County Attorney, Mineola, NY (Christi M. Kunzig and Robert F. Van der Waag of counsel), for respondent.
Janice Peretzman, Garden City, NY, attorney for the children.
Appeals by the father from four orders of disposition of the Family Court, Nassau County (Edmund M. Dane, J.) (one as to each child), all dated July 15, 2015. The orders, after a fact-finding hearing, found that the father abandoned the subject children, terminated the father's parental rights, and transferred guardianship and custody of the subject children to the Nassau County Commissioner of Social Services for the purpose of adoption.
ORDERED that the orders of disposition are affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The petitioning agency commenced these proceedings to terminate the father's parental rights to the subject children on the ground of abandonment. After a fact-finding hearing, the Family Court found that the father abandoned the children, terminated his parental rights, and transferred guardianship and custody of the children to the Nassau County Commissioner of Social Services for the purpose of adoption. The father appeals.
The petitioning agency established by clear and convincing evidence that the father abandoned the children by failing to visit or communicate with them or the petitioning agency during the six-month period immediately prior to the date on which the petitions were filed (see Social Services Law § 384–b[4] [b] ; Matter of Sabina Jessica S., 32 A.D.3d 857, 868, 820 N.Y.S.2d 525 ).
MASTRO, J.P., BALKIN, COHEN and BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ., concur.