Legal Opinion

In re Shannon Monique W.

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

Decided December 9, 1997PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

—Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Maijory Fields, J.), entered November 2, 1995, which, inter alia, terminated respondent’s parental rights to the subject child upon a finding of mental illness, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioners’ uncontradicted evidence of respondent’s history of chronic mental illness dating back to 1987, and requiring repeated and sometimes extended hospitalizations, her poor compliance with treatment and her failure to recognize the severity of her illness, together with the unrefuted conclusion of the court-appointed psychiatrist that as a…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. In re Aridyse Ashley J.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
  2. In re the Custody & Guardianship of Christine Marie R.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. In re Alfred R.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001

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