Legal Question in Family Law in New York

My husband of two years has paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar 1 disorder. I didn't know this of him when I married him, it turned out he has a history of 10 times involuntary hospitalizations and criminal record including hitting a police officer. He starts treatment but soon stops and is violent domestically when not on medication. He was just found guilty by ACS child neglect case towards him by the New York ACS. I want to divorce him and also have him be responsible for violating court protection order many times towards the child and me after the ACS started the child neglect case. A large law firm in NYC has taken him pro bono, I am the only physical and financial caregiver of the child and find it impossible to find time and energy to do all the things his attorney is asking the judge to order me to do in the desposition of his child neglect case. I am bringing our 3 year old child for supervised visits 1 time per week for the last 1.5 years, taking half a day off work each week, now they want me to bring the child to teraputic visits on top of that with the father and to visits with the father's parents, who are much in denial of my husband's illness and have put the child and me in danger in the past as well as the public, because of not hospitalizing him when violent. All I hear in court is about the rights of the mentally ill and no one is protecting the rights of my child and me as the only person providing food and shelter for the child. I want an attorney who is ready to disclose my husban's medical records and history of incompliance with treatment and protect our child to being exposed to such instability. Once in 3 weeks seems reasonable visiting schedule with the child, not three times per week... I am close to losing my job because of this pressure and absence from work. Please suggest attorneys?

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