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PROOF INSUFFICIENT TO DEMONSTRATE INCARCERATED FATHER ABANDONED THE CHILDREN.

The Fourth Department, reversing Family Court, determined the proof did not demonstrate father, who was incarcerated, abandoned the children. The Fourth Department noted that the failure to offer a meaningful plan for the children’s future is not relevant to an abandonment proceeding:

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A child is deemed abandoned where, for the period six months immediately prior to the filing of the petition for abandonment . . . , a parent evinces an intent to forego his or her parental rights and obligations as manifested by his or her failure to visit the child and communicate with the child or [petitioner], although able to do so and not prevented or discouraged from doing so by [petitioner]’ ” … . Here, the evidence established that the father, who was incarcerated for most of the six-month period immediately prior to the filing of the petition, contacted the children or petitioner every month during that period. The father wrote letters to the children and called, met with, and wrote letters to the children’s caseworker. We conclude that the father’s contacts were not minimal, sporadic, or insubstantial … . Moreover, during that period, the father filed a petition seeking custody or visitation with the children, which indicates that he did not intend to forego his parental rights … . Although Family Court’s finding that the father failed to offer a meaningful plan for the children’s future is relevant to a termination proceeding based on permanent neglect… , it is not relevant to a termination proceeding based on abandonment … . Matter of John F. (John F., Jr.), 2017 NY Slip Op 03369, 4th Dept 4-28-17

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