In four related proceedings pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b to terminate parental rights on the ground of permanent neglect, the mother and father separately appeal, as limited by their respective briefs, from so much of (1) a fact-finding order of the Family Court, Kings County (Lim, J.), dated August 10, 2009, as, after a hearing, found that they each had permanently neglected the subject children, and (2) four orders of disposition of the same court (one as to each child), each dated October 6, 2009, as terminated their respective parental rights as to the subject children and transferred custody of the children to MercyFirst and the Commissioner of the Administration for Children’s Services of the City of New York for the purpose of adoption.
Ordered that the appeals from the fact-finding order are dismissed, without costs or disbursements, as the fact-finding order was superseded by the orders of disposition and is brought up for review on the appeals from the orders of disposition; and it is further,
Ordered that the orders of disposition are affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The Family Court properly determined, as to each of the four children, that it was in their best interest to terminate the parental rights of the mother and father (see Matter of Justina Rose D.,