Opinion
April 13, 1998
Appeal from the Family Court, Kings County (Bogacz, J.).
Ordered that the order of disposition is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The petitioning agency established by clear and convincing evidence that the mother is unable to properly and adequately care for her child, at present or in the foreseeable future, by reason of mental illness ( see, Social Services Law § 384-b [c]; Matter of Hime Y., 52 N.Y.2d 242). The psychiatrist from Mental Health Services testified that based on his examination of the mother and his review of her extensive psychiatric hospitalization records, he diagnosed the mother as suffering from a psycho-affective disorder, with additional diagnoses of cocaine and marihuana dependency in remission and personality disorder with immature and dependency features. The mother's disorder was long-standing and she had a history of institutionalization which was compounded by noncompliance with medication and treatment. This evidence is convincing proof of the mother's inability to care for her child, now and in the foreseeable future ( see, Matter of Michelle H., 228 A.D.2d 440; Matter of Sunja S., 175 A.D.2d 132; Matter of Denise Emily K, 154 A.D.2d 596).
Copertino, J.P., Santucci, Krausman and Florio, JJ., concur.