Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York May 24, 2017, 2016-08111 (Matter of Clarence D.H. (Fidelina A.))

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Richmond County (Karen Wolff, J.), dated July 8, 2016. The order denied the mother’s motion to vacate an order of fact-finding and disposition of the same court dated February 16, 2016, which, upon her failure to appear at a fact-finding and dispositional hearing and after an inquest, among other things, terminated her parental rights on the ground of