Opinion
December 17, 1998
Appeal from the Family Court, New York County (George Jurow, J.).
The appeal from the denial of custody is dismissed as moot because the children are now over the age of 18. The appeal from the purported order of protection is dismissed because it is not an order at all but merely a decision contained in an unsigned, unentered transcript of the proceeding (CPLR 5512 [a]; 2219 [b]; 2220 [a]; Matter of Juan Alejandro R., 221 A.D.2d 183), and, moreover, the purported order of protection is also moot because the one-year period it was to be in effect has now expired. Were we to review, we would find that petitioner's threatening behavior warranted both the denial of his application for custody and the granting of respondent's application for an order of protection.
Concur — Nardelli, J. P., Wallach, Rubin and Williams, JJ.