In re Georgeanne W. Dutchess County Department of Social Services

In two related proceedings pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b to terminate the mother’s parental rights on the ground that she is presently and for the foreseeable future unable by reason of mental illness to provide proper and adequate care for the subject children, the mother appeals from an order of the Family Court, Dutchess County (Forman, J.), entered February 2, 2001, which, after a fact-finding hearing, terminated her parental rights and transferred guardianship and custody of the children to the petitioner.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and the facts, without…