In re Jason Adonise
M.
Matter of Jason Adonise M.
2007
NY Slip Op 07750 [44 AD3d 440]
October
16, 2007
Appellate
Division, First Department
Published
by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As
corrected through Wednesday, December 12, 2007
In the Matter of Jason Adonise M.,
Jr., an Infant. Jason Luis M., Appellant; Graham-Windham
Services to Families and Children, Respondent, et al., Respondent.
—[*1] Mary Ellen Sweeney,
Carrieri
& Carrieri, P.C.,
George
E. Reed, Jr.,
Order
of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Sidney Gribetz,
J.), entered on or about August 25, 2003, which, after a fact-finding hearing,
terminated respondent's parental rights and transferred custody and
guardianship rights over the subject child to petitioner Graham-Windham
Services and the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social
Services for the purpose of consenting to adoption, unanimously affirmed,
without costs.
The
record reveals the agency met its burden of showing that despite its diligent
efforts, respondent father permanently neglected his child within the
definition of Social Services Law § 384-b (7) (a). The statute requires only
reasonable attempts, by means of a diligent undertaking; the agency's efforts
met that standard (see Matter of Sheila G., 61 NY2d 368, 385 [1984]). Concur—Lippman, P.J., Andrias, Marlow,
Buckley and Catterson, JJ.