Daniels v. Lushia
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtStein, J.
*1406It is well settled that a biological parent’s custodial rights may not be taken away “absent surrender, abandonment, persisting neglect, unfitness or other like extraordinary circumstances” (Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys, 40 NY2d 543, 544 [1976]). Evidence that the parent has failed to maintain “continuous contact with a child or to plan for the child’s future has been found to constitute persistent neglect sufficient to rise to the level of an extraordinary circumstance” (Matter of Wayman v Ramos, 88 AD3d 1237, 1239 [2011], lv dismissed 18 NY3d 868 [2012] [internal quotation marks and…
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