Matter of Andre L. (Yolanda L.)
2013 NY Slip Op 08383 [112 AD3d 507]
December 17, 2013
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 29, 2014


In the Matter of Andre L., a Child Alleged to be Neglected. Yolanda L., Appellant; Administration for Children's Services, Respondent.

[*1] George E. Reed, Jr., White Plains, for appellant.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Suzanne K. Colt of counsel), for respondent.

Tamara A. Steckler, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Claire V. Merkine of counsel), attorney for the child.

Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Carol A. Stokinger, J.), entered on or about January 4, 2010, which, upon a fact-finding determination that respondent mother neglected her son by failing to provide him with adequate and appropriate education, placed the child with petitioner agency until the next permanency hearing, scheduled for June 21, 2010, unanimously affirmed, without costs, insofar as it brings up for review the fact-finding determination, and the appeal therefrom otherwise dismissed as moot. Order of fact-finding, same court and Judge, entered on or about December 8, 2009, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

A preponderance of the evidence established that respondent failed to exercise even a [*2]"minimum degree of care" in providing her son with an education (see Family Ct Act § 1012 [f] [i] [A]; Matter of Baum, 61 AD2d 123, 130-131 [2d Dept 1978], lv denied 44 NY2d 647 [1978]). Concur—Friedman, J.P., Acosta, Renwick, Manzanet-Daniels and Gische, JJ.