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EVIDENCE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND MARIJUANA USE WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO FIND THAT FATHER NEGLECTED THE CHILD (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Family Court, determined the evidence did not support the neglect finding against father based upon domestic violence and marijuana use:

… ” [A] finding of neglect is proper where a preponderance of the evidence establishes that the child’s physical, mental, or emotional condition was impaired or was in danger of becoming impaired by the parent’s commission of an act, or acts, of domestic violence in the child’s presence'”… . However, “exposing a child to domestic violence is not presumptively neglectful. Not every child exposed to domestic violence is at risk of impairment” … . Here, we agree with the father’s contention that, with respect to that allegation, the preponderance of the evidence did not establish that he neglected the child … .

The father contends, and ACS [Administration of Children’s Services] concedes, that the evidence of the father’s use of marijuana was insufficient to establish that the child was neglected. We agree. The evidence failed to demonstrate that the father’s marijuana use caused impairment, or an imminent danger of impairment, to the physical, mental, or emotional well-being of the child … . Matter of Simone C.P. (Jeffry F.P.), 2020 NY Slip Op 02270, Second Dept 4-9-20

 

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