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FATHER WAS NOT ENTITLED TO SUMMARY JUDGMENT TERMINATING HIS PARENTAL RIGHTS ON THE GROUND HIS 18-YEAR-OLD CHILD HAD ABANDONED HIM (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing Family Court, determined father was not entitled to summary judgment on his petition to terminate his parental rights on the ground that the 18-year-old had abandoned him:

… [T]he father did not establish his entitlement, as a matter of law, to termination of his child support obligation on the ground of abandonment. Although the father’s submissions detailed his efforts to establish a relationship with the child and the child’s repeated rebuffs of those efforts, the father’s proof failed to demonstrate as a matter of law that the child’s refusal to have contact with him was totally unjustified, particularly given the father’s prolonged absence from the child’s life and the child’s developmental disability and other diagnoses. Such factual issues warranted a full evidentiary hearing and should not have been summarily resolved by Family Court … . Although Family Court had knowledge of prior proceedings between the parties, the justification issue had never been squarely before Family Court and required the presentation of evidence, including potential expert testimony, concerning the impact of the child’s developmental disability and other diagnoses on the child’s refusal to have contact with the father. Matter of Thomas GG. v Bonnie Jean HH., 2020 NY Slip Op 05988, Third Dept 10-22-20

 

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