Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York November 13, 2013 (In re Christopher C. Dutchess County Department of Social Services)

In three related proceedings pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b to terminate the father’s parental rights on the ground of abandonment, the father appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of fact-finding and disposition (one paper) of the Family Court, Dutchess County (Sammarco, J.