Matter of Ariez T.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Schenectady County (Powers, J.), entered June 30, 2015, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 10, denied respondent’s motion to dismiss the petition.

Respondent is the father of a child born in December 2014. Family Court removed the child from his mother’s care immediately after his birth. In April 2015, petitioner commenced this proceeding to adjudicate the child to be neglected based, in part, on respondent’s long history of substance abuse coupled with his admission that one month earlier, he had been admitted to the hospital…