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FATHER, WHO WAS INCARCERATED, SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRODUCED FOR THE PROCEEDING TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN FOR THE CHILD, NEW HEARING ORDERED (SECOND DEPT). ​

The Second Department, reversing Family Court, determined father, who was incarcerated, had a fundamental right to be heard in the guardianship proceeding and shouild have been produced in court:

The order, after a hearing at which the father was neither present nor represented, and upon the mother’s consent, granted the petition of Krystle L. B. to be appointed permanent guardian of the subject child. …

An incarcerated parent has a fundamental right to be heard in a proceeding impacting the care and control of his or her child … . Here, the incarcerated father’s rights were violated when the Family Court elected to hear and determine the guardianship petition without producing the father in court or affording him an opportunity to be heard.

Accordingly, we reverse the order appealed from, and remit the matter … for a hearing at which the father’s constitutional right to be heard will not be abridged and a new determination thereafter on the guardianship petition. Matter of Krystle L.B. v Crystal L.W., 2018 NY Slip Op 08019, Second Dept 11-21-18

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