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Failure to Comply With Terms of Suspended Judgment Justified Termination of Parental Rights

The Third Department determined mother’s failure to comply with the terms of a suspended judgment (permanent neglect) justified termination of her parental rights.  There was evidence the child was thriving in foster care:

It is well settled that a suspended judgment gives a parent who is found to have permanently neglected his or her child “a brief grace period within which to become a fit parent with whom the child can be safely reunited” … . Where the parent’s failure to comply with the terms and conditions of a suspended judgment is established by a preponderance of the evidence, such judgment may be revoked and parental rights may be terminated … . * * *

…”[W]hile respondent’s ‘failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the suspended judgment does not compel the termination of her parental rights, [it] is strong evidence that termination is, in fact, in the best interests of the [child]'”… . Matter of Cody D. (Brittiany F.), 2015 NY Slip Op 02811, 3rd Dept 4-2-15

 

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