| Matter of Isiah M.D.O. (Yael M.D.O.) |
| 2022 NY Slip Op 00050 [201 AD3d 440] |
| January 6, 2022 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Isiah M.D.O., Also Known as Isiah N. and Another, an Infant. Good Shepherd Services, Respondent; Yael M.D.O., Appellant. |
George E. Reed, Jr., White Plains, for appellant.
Geoffrey P. Berman, Larchmont, for respondent.
Dawne A. Mitchell, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Claire V. Merkine of counsel), attorney for the child.
Order, Family Court, New York County (Patria Frias-Col�n, J.), entered on or about February 24, 2020, which, upon a finding of abandonment, terminated respondent mother's parental rights to the subject child and transferred custody of the child to petitioner agency and the Commissioner of Social Services for the purpose of adoption, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Clear and convincing evidence that respondent had no contact with the child or the agency during the six months preceding the filing of the petition raised a presumption that she intended to forego her parental rights to the child, and respondent failed to rebut the presumption (see Social Services Law § 384-b [5] [a]; Matter of Michael T.J.K. [Alicia R.], 168 AD3d 545 [1st Dept 2019]).
We have considered respondent's remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Kern, J.P., Mazzarelli, Gesmer, González, Higgitt, JJ.