Maxine R., Appellant. v. << (1998)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, New York.

Matter of LISA T., a Child Alleged to be Abandoned. Onondaga County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Maxine R., Appellant.

Decided: February 04, 1998

Before PINE, J.P., and HAYES, WISNER, BOEHM and FALLON, JJ.

Hiscock Legal Aid Society by Robert Rickert, Syracuse, for Respondent-Appellant Maxine R. Onondaga County Dept. of Law by John Connor, Syracuse, for Petitioner-Respondent Onondaga County D.S.S. Anthony Belletier, Syracuse, for Law Guardian.

Respondent appeals from an order terminating her parental rights with respect to her 17-year-old daughter on the ground of abandonment. Petitioner established that respondent had not contacted her daughter in five or six years, and that, during the six-month period prior to the filing of the petition, respondent did not “visit the child and communicate with the child or agency, although able to do so and not prevented or discouraged from doing so by the agency” (Social Services Law § 384-b [5] [a] ). Respondent failed to “show good reason for the failure to visit or communicate” (Matter of Charmaine T. [Charmaine C.], 173 A.D.2d 625, 626, 570 N.Y.S.2d 209). We do not consider the contention of respondent, raised for the first time on appeal, that it is contrary to legislative intent to terminate parental rights where, as here, adoption is not a “practical goal” because of the child's age.

Order unanimously affirmed without costs.

MEMORANDUM:

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