Opinion
Submitted June 7, 1999
August 2, 1999
Yasmin Daley Duncan, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.
Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Pamela Seider Dolgow and Elizabeth S. Natrella of counsel), for respondent.
Monica Drinane, New York, N.Y. (Susan Clement of counsel), Law Guardian for the children.
WILLIAM C. THOMPSON, J.P., MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
In a child protective proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, the mother appeals from so much of an order of the Family Court, Kings County (Adams, J.), entered May 5, 1997, as, upon a fact-finding order of the same court, made after a hearing, finding that she had neglected her seven children, granted physical custody of three of the children to the maternal grandmother for a period of 12 months.
ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.
The mother's appeal from so much of the dispositional order as placed three of her children in the care of their maternal grandmother must be dismissed as academic. The 12-month placement period has expired and no appeal was taken from the subsequent order extending placement ( see, Matter of C. Children, 252 A.D.2d 523; Matter of Keith C. [Lynn J.], 226 A.D.2d 369). In any event, the children have been returned to the appellant on a trial basis and are no longer in the custody of their grandmother ( see, Commissioner of Admin. for Children's Servs. of City of N.Y. [Karan L.] [Patricia J.], 245 A.D.2d 172; Matter of Jamie EE. [Gail FF.], 232 A.D.2d 761).
THOMPSON, J.P., ALTMAN, FEUERSTEIN, and SCHMIDT, JJ., concur.