Matter of Alexus SS.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Ulster County (McGinty, J.), entered March 27, 2014, which, in two proceedings pursuant to Family Ct Act article 10-A, found that petitioner failed to make reasonable efforts to finalize the permanency plan for the subject children.

Respondent’s three children (born in 2006, 2009 and 2011) were placed in petitioner’s custody in March 2011. A finding of neglect was thereafter entered against respondent, and Family Court approved a permanency plan of reunification with respondent. At a September 2013 permanency hearing, the parties proposed that the…