In re Nassau County Department of Social Services
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*780The instant petition was brought in 1991 for guardianship and custody of the child Jean G. and to terminate the parental rights of her mother due to the mother’s mental illness (Social Services Law § 384-b [4] [c]). The evidence adduced at the fact-finding hearing established, by the requisite clear and convincing standard (Social Services Law § 384-b [3] [g]; see, Matter of Hime Y., 52 NY2d 242), that as a result of her affliction with a schizo-affective disorder, the mother was presently and for the foreseeable future would be unable to provide proper and adequate care for the child (see,…
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