Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1997

In re the Custody & Guardianship of Christine Marie R.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided February 25, 1997

236 A.D.2d 308; 654 N.Y.S.2d 134; 1997 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1491

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3 later published cases cite this decision.

In re the Guardianship of Gabrielle S. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1997)
In re Shannon Monique W. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1997)
In re Patrick H. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1997)

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Opinion of the Court

—Order of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Leah Marks, J.), entered on or about May 20, 1994, which, inter alia, terminated respondent’s parental rights to the subject child upon a finding of mental illness, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The evidence is clear and convincing that respondent mother has suffered from severe mental illness for more than 20 years, characterized by a recurring cycle of psychiatric hospitalizations, sometimes for extended periods of time, and that she has functioned at only a marginal level throughout her entire adult life. Since respondent is simply incapable of adequately caring for her child at the present time and has offered no evidence that there is any prospect that she will be capable of doing so *309in the foreseeable future, Family Court properly granted the petition to terminate her parental rights (see, Matter of Chuckie Douglas M., 188 AD2d 280). Concur—Murphy, P. J., Wallach, Rubin and Williams, JJ.

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