Filed Date: 2/7/2014
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 10/19/2024
Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Livingston County (Robert B. Wiggins, J.), entered June 8, 2012 in a proceeding pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b. The order, among other things, revoked a suspended judgment and terminated respondent’s parental rights with respect to the subject child.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Respondent mother appeals from an order revoking a suspended judgment pursuant to Family Court Act § 633 and terminating her parental rights with respect to her daughter. Contrary to the mother’s contention, petitioner established by a preponderance of the evidence that the mother violated the terms and conditions of the suspended judgment (see Matter of Giovanni K. [Dawn K.], 68 AD3d 1766, 1767 [2009], lv denied 14 NY3d 707 [2010]). Petitioner established that the mother failed to obtain suitable housing until after the violation petition was filed and that she withdrew or limited releases for information from programs that she attended. Although the mother testified that she had completed several programs, she failed to provide verification that she completed the programs and admitted that she did not know whether petitioner had approved those programs. Petitioner established by a preponderance of the evidence that the mother continued to live at her parents’ house, to which petitioner had been