Manhattan appellate judges differed on just how much effort a woman made getting her troubled teenaged daughter to school, with a slim majority overturning a Family Court judge’s finding of neglect.

The Appellate Division, First Department dissent insisted Maribel R. only put up “occasional, feeble attempts to ensure” Brianna R. went to school. But the majority said that given the case’s facts, the mother “exercised the minimum degree of care” and vacated the neglect finding Tuesday.

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