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NON-RESPONDENT FATHER’S APPEAL OF THE PLACEMENT OF HIS CHILDREN WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN’S SERVICES WAS NOT MOOT; THE CHILDREN HAD BEEN PLACED WITH RELATIVES; PLACEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT, AS OPPOSED TO WITH RELATIVES, TRIGGERS THE POSSIBLE FUTURE TERMINATION OF FATHER’S PARENTAL RIGHTS (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department determined non-respondent father’s appeal of the placement of his children with the department of family and children’s services was not moot. The children had been placed with relatives. Placement with the department of family and children’s services, as opposed to with relatives, triggers the possible termination of father’s parental rights:

… [T]he Social Services Law provides that, whenever a child “shall have been in foster care for [15] months of the most recent [22] months . . . the authorized agency having care of the child shall file a petition” to terminate parental rights unless, as relevant here, “the child is being cared for by a relative” … . Thus, we agree with the father that his appeal from the order moving his children from relative placement to foster care is not moot because that change in placement “may, in future proceedings, affect [his] status or parental rights” …  by altering the obligations of petitioner with respect to a future petition to terminate the father’s parental rights…. . Matter of Shdaya B. (Rahdasha B.–Carlton M.), 2023 NY Slip Op 01599, Fourth Dept 3-23-23

Practice Point: Here the non-respondent father’s appeal of the placement of his children with the department of family and children’s services was not moot. The children had been placed with relatives. Placement with the department, as opposed to with relatives, triggers the possible future termination of father’s parental rights.

 

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