Legal Opinion

In re Jessica SS.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 3, 1996PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtMercure, J.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Columbia County (Zittell, J.), entered December 30, 1994, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, to adjudicate Jessica SS. a neglected child.

Jessica SS. (hereinafter the child) was born in 1992. Respondent is the child’s paternal grandmother. Sadly, both of the child’s parents suffer from mental illness, the father having been diagnosed as a schizophrenic and the mother as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. At the time of the child’s birth, the father was a patient at Capital District…

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