In re Jaylin Elia G.
Opinion of the Court
Order, Family Court, New York County (Jody Adams, J.), entered on or about November 7, 2012, which, upon a fact-finding determination that appellant mother permanently neglected her child, terminated her parental rights, and committed the care and custody of the child to petitioner agency Harlem Dowling-Westside Center for Children and Family Services and the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York for the purpose of adoption, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The agency demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence that it expended the requisite diligent efforts to reunite appellant with the child by scheduling visitation, providing appellant with transportation funds between New York and Rhode Island, where she was living, and by repeatedly advising her that she needed to complete a drug treatment program, obtain housing
The court’s finding that it was in the child’s best interest to be freed for adoption is supported by a preponderance of the evidence given the positive environment provided by the foster mother and her desire to adopt the child (see Matter of Savannah V., 38 AD3d 354, 355 [1st Dept 2007]).
We have considered appellant’s remaining contentions and find them unavailing.
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