Matter of Nigel S.
2007 NY Slip Op 07445 [44 AD3d 673]
October 2, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, December 12, 2007


63—In the Matter of Nigel S. Administration for Children'sServices, Respondent; Nicole S., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 1.) In the Matter of Shaion S.Administration for Children's Services, Respondent; Nicole S., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 2.) Inthe Matter of Nicholas Scott Martin P. Administration for Children's Services, Respondent;Nicole S., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 3.) In the Matter of Nishan S. Administration forChildren's Services, Respondent; Nicole S., Appellant. (Proceeding No.4.)

[*1]Catherine S. Bridge, Staten Island, N.Y., for appellant.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Pamela Seider Dolgow and FayNg of counsel), for respondent.

Steven Banks, New York, N.Y. (Tamara Steckler and Diane Pazar of counsel), LawGuardian.

[*2]

In four related child protective proceedings pursuant toFamily Court Act article 10, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of anorder of the Family Court, Queens County (Ramseur, R.), dated July 28, 2006, as, after apermanency hearing, changed the permanency goal from return to her to placement for adoption.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

The petitioner met its burden of establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, that a planto change the permanency goal to adoption was in the children's best interests (see Matter of Jennifer R., 29 AD3d1003, 1004 [2006]). The Family Court's determination to approve a permanency goal ofadoption has a sound and substantial basis in the record (see Matter of Darlene L., 38 AD3d 552, 554 [2007]). Miller, J.P.,Skelos, Covello and McCarthy, JJ., concur.


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