Opinion
May 7, 1998
Appeal from the Family Court, New York County (Sheldon Rand, J.).
In light of the circumstance that Estelle G., the subject of this foster care review proceeding, has, since entry of the order appealed from, passed her 18th birthday, Family Court no longer has jurisdiction in this matter (Social Services Law § 392[b]), and the instant appeal is therefore rendered moot. In any event, Estelle G.'s course of conduct would have made a hearing in the Family Court an exercise in futility. We also note that children between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one years are not without remedies if they are entitled to foster care funding (see, Matter of Matthew G., 184 A.D.2d 323).
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Ellerin, Nardelli, Rubin and Mazzarelli, JJ.