In re Mashlai D.M.
Opinion of the Court
In a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6 and Social Services Law § 384-b to terminate parental rights on the ground of permanent neglect, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of fact-finding and disposition of the Family Court, Westchester County (Schauer, J.), entered September 17, 2012, as, after a hearing, in effect, revoked a suspended judgment contained in an order of disposition of the same court entered May 2, 2011, upon a determination that she violated the terms and conditions thereof, and, after a dispositional hearing, terminated her parental rights and transferred the guardianship and custody of the subject child to the Westchester County Department of Social Services for the purpose of adoption.
Ordered that the order entered September 17, 2012, is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
The Family Court may revoke a suspended judgment after a violation hearing if it finds, upon a preponderance of the evidence, that the parent failed to comply with one or more of its
Further, the evidence adduced at the dispositional hearing supported the Family Court’s determination that it was in the best interests of the child to terminate the mother’s parental rights and free the child for adoption (see Family Ct Act § 631; Matter of Chanteau M.R.W. [Pamela R.B.], 101 AD3d at 1129; Matter of Carmen C. [Margarita N.], 95 AD3d at 1008; Matter of Darren V., 61 AD3d at 987).
The mother’s remaining contentions are without merit. Rivera, J.P., Lott, Sgroi and Miller, JJ., concur.
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