Opinion
April 8, 1985
Appeal from the Family Court, Richmond County (Meyer, J.).
Orders dated November 30, 1983 affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The petitioner agency sustained its burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that it exercised diligent efforts to strengthen the parent-child relationship and to reunite the family and that the mother failed to plan for the future of the child ( Matter of Sheila G., 61 N.Y.2d 368). The admission into evidence of the entire case file does not warrant reversal. The mother's counsel was afforded the opportunity to examine the file prior to the trial ( Matter of Leon RR., 48 N.Y.2d 117, 123-124; Matter of Rosemary D., 78 A.D.2d 889). Moreover, the court did not abuse its discretion in appointing cocounsel for the mother and granting a four-week adjournment on the mother's request, made more than halfway through the hearing, to relieve her retained counsel ( cf. People v. Arroyave, 49 N.Y.2d 264). Finally, on this record we conclude the dispositional orders were appropriate. Mangano, J.P., Brown, Niehoff and Lawrence, JJ., concur.