| Matter of Maria C. (Delilah C.) |
| 2014 NY Slip Op 04483 [118 AD3d 874] |
| June 18, 2014 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
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| In the Matter of Maria C. Suffolk County Department ofSocial Services, Respondent; Delilah C., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 1.) In the Matter ofLedin C. Suffolk County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Delilah C.,Appellant. (Proceeding No. 2.) In the Matter of Brooklyn P. Suffolk County Departmentof Social Services, Respondent; Delilah C., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 3.) In the Matterof Amber S. Suffolk County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Delilah C.,Appellant. (Proceeding No. 4.) |
Robert C. Mitchell, Central Islip, N.Y. (Daniel R. Howard of counsel), forappellant.
Dennis M. Brown, County Attorney, Central Islip, N.Y. (Samantha N. McEachin ofcounsel), for respondent.
Michael E. Repole, Smithtown, N.Y., attorney for the children Maria C., BrooklynP., and Amber S. (joining in the brief of the respondent).
Beth A. Rosenthal, North Babylon, N.Y., attorney for the child Ledin C.
In four related child protective proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 10,Delilah C. appeals from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Kelly, J.), datedMay 8, 2013, which directed her to submit to a hair follicle drug test.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
[*2] Family Court Act article 10, entitled "Child ProtectiveProceedings," is designed to "help protect children from injury or mistreatment and tohelp safeguard their physical, mental, and emotional well-being" and provides "dueprocess of law for determining when the state, through its family court, may interveneagainst the wishes of a parent on behalf of a child so that his [or her] needs are properlymet" (Family Ct Act § 1011; see Matter of Brianna L. [Marie A.], 103 AD3d 181,186-187 [2012]). Under the circumstances of this case, the Family Court properlydirected the appellant to submit to a hair follicle drug test (see Family Ct Act§ 251). Dickerson, J.P., Leventhal, Hall and Miller, JJ., concur.