Charles K. v. Jessica J.

Petitioner, the father of the subject child (born in 2006), was incarcerated at the time of the child’s birth and remained incarcerated at the Franklin Correctional Facility in Franklin County when, in April 2010, he filed a petition for visitation that would require a nine-hour round trip from the child’s home in Cortland County. The child has been in foster care since 2009, had only visited petitioner twice in prison before she was two years old, and was adjudicated to have been neglected by her mother, respondent Jessica J. (hereinafter respondent). After a fact-finding hearing, Family…