Legal Opinion

In re Jahni Reese F.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided June 18, 2015Published

1Opinion of the Court

*546Appeal from order, Family Court, New York County (Douglas Hoffman, J.), entered on or about June 10, 2014, which, upon appellant’s default, terminated his parental rights to the subject child on the ground of permanent neglect and committed the custody and guardianship of the child to the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York and petitioner agency for the purpose of adoption, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as taken from a nonappealable order.

The appeal is dismissed because appellant failed to appear at both the fact-finding and dispositional hearings, without excuse,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Matter of Eric R. v. Celena P.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014

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