In re Alexis S.D.
Opinion of the Court
Order of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Sara P Schechter, J.), entered on or about August 28, 2002, after a fact-finding determination of permanent neglect, terminating respondent’s parental rights to the subject child and committing the child’s guardianship and custody to petitioner agency and the Commissioner of Social Services for the purpose of adoption, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The finding of permanent neglect is supported by clear and convincing evidence that respondent failed to complete a drug treatment program during the statutorily relevant time period (see Matter of Dade Wynn F., 291 AD2d 218 [2002], lv denied 98 NY2d 604 [2002]), and also failed to separate from and indeed married her boyfriend, who had failed to complete domestic violence and drug rehabilitation programs as required by the dispositional order entered in the neglect proceeding and to
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