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THE PROOF FATHER NEGLECTED THE CHILD WAS PRIMARILY BASED UPON HIS INCARCERATION, WHICH WAS NOT SUFFICIENT (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing Family Court, over a concurrence, determined the proof respondent father neglected the child was insufficient. The neglect finding appeared to be primarily based upon father’s incarceration:

We note that a determination of whether respondent neglected the child was complicated by the fact that no DNA analysis was performed to establish paternity until late 2020, over a year after the child’s birth. * * *

At the fact-finding hearing, … most of the proof upon which petitioner relied was … hearsay. Although no objections were raised, the caseworker testified to the mother’s statements regarding paternity and to respondent’s mother’s statements. In the end, petitioner’s proof failed to establish how respondent’s plan to have his mother care for the child fell below the “minimum degree of care” or how it impaired the child or placed him in imminent danger of becoming impaired … . Petitioner’s proof seemed to be predicated solely on respondent’s incarceration, which cannot alone form the basis for a neglect finding … . Due to the accumulation of errors by petitioner, and the insufficiency of its proof, we find that petitioner failed to establish that respondent neglected the subject child … . Matter of Elijah AA. (Alexander AA.), 2023 NY Slip Op 02812, Third Dept 5-25-23

Practice Point: Here the proof father neglected the child was insufficient. Despite father’s request, a paternity test was not performed for more than a year after the child’s birth. Once father was incarcerated two months before the child’s birth, his mother refused to help out with care for the child, but father was not so informed. Neglect cannot be based solely on father’s incarceration.

 

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