Legal Opinion
In re Hailey ZZ.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 7, 2012PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Read, J.
This appeal calls upon us to resolve a conflict within the Appellate Division as to whether Family Court may direct continuing contact between parent and child once parental rights have been terminated pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b. We hold that the court lacks this authority.
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Hailey ZZ., born in late 2007, initially resided with her birth mother and father and an older half-sister, a child of Hailey’s mother and a different father. Father was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison in early 2008, when Hailey was three months old, and has apparently remained…
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