Opinion
June 8, 1999.
Appeal from the Family Court, New York County (Rhoda Cohen, J.).
Respondent's claim of illness on the day of the fact-finding and dispositional hearings was not credibly substantiated by the doctor's note she offered in support of the motion. Further, her claim that the agency failed to make the requisite diligent efforts to strengthen the parental relationship was unresponsive to the proof that she refused to cooperate with the agency's efforts to ascertain her progress in the drug program she claimed she was attending, and that her compliance with the weekly visitation schedule arranged by the agency was erratic and her interaction with the child poor ( see, Matter of "Male" Jones, 128 A.D.2d 403; Matter of Male J., 214 A.D.2d 417). We further note that respondent's motion did not address the child's best interests.
Concur — Williams, J.P., Wallach, Andrias and Friedman, JJ.