In re Darcy Y.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Ulster County (McGinty, J.), entered January 5, 2012, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 10, to adjudicate the subject children to be neglected.

On the afternoon of August 7, 2011, respondent and his live-in girlfriend of three years (hereinafter the mother) attended a family wedding with the children who are the subject of this proceeding. When the group left the reception later that evening, the mother was driving, and respondent, the mother’s two children and respondent’s niece were passengers…