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10. Magen, In the Best Interests of Battered Women: Reconceptualizing
Allegations of Failure to Protect, 4 Child Maltreatment No. 2, at 127
(May 1999).
11. Laws of 1996, ch 85 §§1, 8.
12. People v Alexander, 97 NY2d 482, 487 n 4 (2002).
13. SCR Intake Procedure Manual, § F at 53.
14. Social Services Law § 424(6).
15. See Social Services Law § 424(10).
16. Social Services Law § 412 (12).
17. Social Services Law § 422.
18. See In re H/R Children, 302 AD2d 288 (1st Dept 2003).
19. Matter of Marie B., 62 NY2d 352, 358 (1984).
20. See Ronald FF. v Cindy GG., 70 NY2d 141 (1987); Spence-Chapin
Adoption Service v Polk, 29 NY2d 196, 204 (1971).
21. Family Court Act § 1024; see also Tenenbaum v Williams, 193 F3d 581
(2d Cir 1999).
22. Family Court Act § 1027(a).
23. Family Court Act §§ 1022(a),1027(b)(i).
24. Family Court Act § 1017.
25. If the mother appears on the day that removal is requested rather than after
removal has occurred, the same hearing is held under Family Court Act
§ 1027 and is called a “1027 hearing.” A hearing on a removal application
prior to the filing of the petition is held under Family Court Act § 1022.
26. Nicholson v Scoppetta, 3 NY3d 357 (2004).
27. Bennett v Jeffreys, 40 NY2d 543, 550 (1976).
28. John B. v Niagara County Department of Social Services, 289 AD2d 1090,
1092 (4th Dept 2001).
29. Nicholson v Scoppetta, 3 NY3d 357 (2004).
30. Family Court Act § 1112(b).
31. Family Court Act § 1035 (d).