Matter of Samantha P. (William C.)

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Kings County (Alan Beckoff, J.), dated January 15, 2014. The order denied the father’s motion pursuant to Family Court Act § 1042 to, in effect, vacate an order of fact-finding dated January 4, 2013, and an order of disposition, also dated January 4, 2013, both entered upon the father’s failure to appear at a fact-finding hearing, and, thereupon, to reopen the fact-finding hearing.

Ordered that the order dated January 15, 2014, is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

This proceeding was commenced pursuant to Family Court Act article 10 against,…