Legal Opinion
Matter of Lylah D. M. (Melissa D.)
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 18, 2017No. 2016-13141Published
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the mother from an order of the Family Court, Richmond County (Arnold Lim, J.), dated November 29, 2016. The order, after a hearing, granted the petitioner’s motion pursuant to Family Court Act § 1039-b for a finding that reasonable efforts to reunite the mother with the subject child were no longer required.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The petitioner commenced this neglect proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 10. In December 2015, the Family Court determined that the mother neglected the subject child, and placed the child in the…
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