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UNCLE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO INTERVENE IN NEGLECT PROCEEDINGS.

The Third Department, reversing Family Court, determined uncle should have been allowed to intervene in neglect proceedings to seek custody of the children who had been removed from the home:

There is no question that the uncle is authorized to seek intervention under the statute; he is one of the enumerated relatives permitted to pursue such relief, and both respondent and the child's father (among others) consented to his appearance in the proceeding. Nor does Family Ct Act § 1035 (f) limit the right of intervention to only the fact-finding and dispositional hearings held on a pending Family Ct Act article 10 neglect petition. Quite the contrary, it broadly permits a qualified relative seeking temporary or permanent custody of the child to participate “in all phases of dispositional proceedings” (Family Ct Act § 1035 [f] [emphasis added]). Furthermore, a permanency hearing is plainly dispositional in nature. A dispositional hearing is defined as “a hearing to determine what order of disposition should be made” (Family Ct Act § 1045), and Family Ct Act § 1089 (d) provides that, “[a]t the conclusion of each permanency hearing, the court shall . . . determine and issue its findings, and enter an order of disposition in writing.” Family Court seemed to acknowledge all of this, but reasoned that intervention was not permitted because the dispositional phase of the proceeding terminated upon completion of the dispositional hearing concerning the article 10 petition and the issuance of an order pursuant to Family Ct Act § 1052 (a). This was error. Matter of Demetria FF. (Tracy GG.), 2016 NY Slip Op 04499, 3rd Dept 6-9-16

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