MATTER OF GEORGEANNE W. DUTCHESS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES


289 A.D.2d 338 (2001)

734 N.Y.S.2d 492

In the Matter of GEORGEANNE W. DUTCHESS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Respondent; EDITH H. W., Also Known as EDITH W., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 1.) In the Matter of CHRISTINE H. DUTCHESS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Respondent; EDITH H. W., Also Known as EDITH W., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 2.)

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

Decided December 10, 2001.


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs or disbursements, and the petition is dismissed.

The petitioner failed to establish by clear and convincing evidence that the mother is now and for the foreseeable future unable by reason of mental illness to properly and adequately care for her children (see, Social Services Law § 384-b [4] [c]; Matter of Daniel Aaron D.,

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