IN RE: Guardianship of LUISA LARA M. (1997)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

IN RE: Guardianship of LUISA LARA M., etc., A Dependent Child Under the Age of Eighteen Years, etc. The CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY, Petitioner-Respondent, v. IRA JEAN R., Respondent-Appellant.

Decided: February 18, 1997

Before WALLACH, J.P., and RUBIN, MAZZARELLI and ANDRIAS, JJ.

Susan Clement, for Luisa Lara M. Marilyn Zarrello, for Petitioner-Respondent. Dennis Houdek, for Respondent-Appellant.

Order of disposition, Family Court, New York County (Ruth Zuckerman, J.), entered August 2, 1994, which, inter alia, terminated respondent's parental rights to the subject child upon a finding of mental illness, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The evidence is clear and convincing that respondent mother has suffered from severe mental illness for more than 30 years characterized by a recurring cycle of psychiatric hospitalizations, sometimes for extended periods of time, and that she has functioned at only a marginal level throughout her entire adult life. Since respondent is simply incapable of adequately caring for her child at the present time and has offered no evidence that there is any prospect that she will be capable of doing so in the foreseeable future, Family Court properly granted the petition to terminate her parental rights (see, Matter of Chuckie Douglas M., 188 A.D.2d 280, 590 N.Y.S.2d 446).

MEMORANDUM DECISION.

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