Melinda A. v. Greene County Department of Social Services

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Greene County (Pulver, Jr., J.), entered August 2, 1999, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, for visitation with her son.

Petitioner is the mother of a son (hereinafter the child) born in 1991. In 1995, a Florida court determined that petitioner had neglected the child by failing to properly protect him from abuse at the hands of her cohabitant. The court ordered that the child be placed with relatives and that petitioner undergo a series of parenting classes and counseling sessions, be…