In re Department of Social Services

In a proceeding pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b to terminate parental rights, (1) the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of a combined fact-finding and dispositional order of the Family Court, Nassau County (Medowar, J.), entered April 4, 1997, made after a hearing, as found that she had permanently neglected the child, terminated her parental rights, and committed the child to the custody of the Commissioner of Social Services, and (2) the Law Guardian cross-appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of the same order as permitted the mother to make a future…