In re Michael T.M.

• Decision Date: 01 June 2010
• Citation: 74 A.D.3d 812,902 N.Y.S.2d 179
• Parties: In the Matter of MICHAEL T.M. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Steven M. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Mark A.M. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Steven M. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 2) In the Matter of Michelle E. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Steven M. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 3) In the Matter of Christopher J.P. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Steven M. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 4) In the Matter of John W.P. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Steven M. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 5).
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

902 N.Y.S.2d 179 74 A.D.3d 812 In the Matter of MICHAEL T.M. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Steven M. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Mark A.M. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Steven M. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 2) In the Matter of Michelle E. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Steven M. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 3) In the Matter of Christopher J.P. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Steven M. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 4) In the Matter of John W.P. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., respondents; Steven M. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 5). Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York. June 1, 2010.

Salvatore C. Adamo, New York, N.Y., for appellant Steven M.

Tennille M. Tatum-Evans, New York, N.Y., for appellant Wendy P.

John R. Eyerman, New York, N.Y., for respondent Seamen's Society for Children and Families.

Steven Banks, New York, N.Y. (Tamara Steckler and Proskauer Rose, LLP [Theodore K. Cheng and Susan D. Friedfeil], of counsel), attorney for the children.

JOSEPH COVELLO, J.P., FRED T. SANTUCCI, DANIEL D. ANGIOLILLO, and THOMAS A. DICKERSON, JJ.

[902 N.Y.S.2d 180, 74 A.D.3d 813]

In five related proceedings pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b to terminate parental rights on the ground of permanent neglect, the mother and father separately appeal (1) from an order of fact-finding and disposition of the Family Court, Richmond County (McElrath, J.), dated November 18, 2008, which, after fact-finding and dispositional hearings, found that the mother permanently neglected the child Christopher J.P., terminated her parental rights, and freed that child for adoption, and (2), as limited by their respective briefs, from so much of four orders of fact-finding and disposition (one as to each of the children Michael T.M., Mark A.M., Michelle E., and John W.P.) of the same court, each dated November 18, 2008, as, after fact-finding and dispositional hearings, found that they permanently neglected each of those children, terminated their parental rights, and freed those children for adoption.

ORDERED that the appeals from the order of fact-finding and disposition pertaining to the child Michelle E. are dismissed as academic,...