Matter of Burney

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• holding that, although placed with guardians when he was four days old, two-year-old child whose mother had visited child once or twice a month, had not been in the guardian's custody “so long that an extraordinary threat to his well-being is posed by the prospective transfer”
• “Abandonment involves a giving up of parental rights and responsibilities accompanied by an intent to forego them.”

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