MATTER OF SS.


234 A.D.2d 865 (1996)

651 N.Y.S.2d 693

In the Matter of Jessica SS., Alleged to be a Child of a Mentally Ill Parent. Columbia County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Philip Z., Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

December 26, 1996


Mercure, J. P.

We are not persuaded by respondent's primary contention, that there was not legally sufficient evidence adduced at the fact-finding hearing to support Family Court's determination that respondent was presently and for the foreseeable future unable, by reason of mental illness, to provide proper and adequate care for his daughter, born in 1992. The court-appointed psychiatrist, Theodore Sabot, testified at the hearing that he had diagnosed...

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