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Title: Matter Irene O. and Others. Cardinal Mccloskey School and Home for Children
Author : Court of Appeals of New York
Release Date : January 22, 1975
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 71 KB

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[38 N.Y.2d 776 Page 777] MEMORANDUM. Order of the Appellate Division reversed, without costs, and the order of the Family Court permanently terminating the parent's custody of her three children reinstated for the reasons stated in the decision of Judge NANETTE DEMBITZ after fact-finding and dispositional hearings. In a matter which turns almost entirely on assessments of the credibility of the witnesses and particularly on the assessment of the character and temperament of the parent, the findings of the nisi prius court must be accorded the greatest respect. The situation would be different, perhaps, if there were critical issues of fact as to what occurred; but in this matter the assessment is not of probabilities or meanings of events. On the contrary, in cases of this kind, the assessment is of persons, character, and their capacity to fulfill responsibilities and not only to intend what they say but to fulfill what they intend.