Legal Opinion

In re Eric Rafael M.

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

Decided May 1, 2001Published

1Opinion of the Court

—Order of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Rhoda Cohen, J.), entered on or about November 10, 1999, terminating respondent’s parental rights to the subject child and committing the child’s guardianship and custody to petitioner agency and the Commissioner of Social Services for the purposes of adoption, upon a fact-finding determination of abandonment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Respondent, who was incarcerated throughout the six-month abandonment period (Social Services Law § 384-b [4] [b]; [5] [a]), admits no personal contact with the child or agency during that period,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. In re Keani D.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999

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