MATTER OF NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL WESTCHESTER DIVISION


276 A.D.2d 558 (2000)

716 N.Y.S.2d 859

In the Matter of NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL, WESTCHESTER DIVISION, Petitioner. J.H.L., Respondent; FREDERICK LEBOW, Appellant.

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

Decided October 10, 2000.


Ordered that the appeal is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

In 1996 upon Frederick Lebow's petition pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law article 81, the Supreme Court, Nassau County, appointed him as guardian for his sister, J.H.L., who suffers from schizophrenia. Subsequently, in 1999, J.H.L. was admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, when she failed to take her medication. As a result of J.H.L.'s refusal to take her medication, the...

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