Opinion
06-29-2016
In the Matter of Gloria BENITEZ, respondent, v. Eduard MENDEZ, appellant.
Christopher J. Robles, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant. Tennille M. Tatum–Evans, New York, N.Y., for respondent. Rita Kaufman, Staten Island, N.Y., attorney for the child Nicholas M. Scott M. Schwartz, Staten Island, N.Y., attorney for the child Emberlyn M.
Christopher J. Robles, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.
Tennille M. Tatum–Evans, New York, N.Y., for respondent.
Rita Kaufman, Staten Island, N.Y., attorney for the child Nicholas M.
Scott M. Schwartz, Staten Island, N.Y., attorney for the child Emberlyn M.
Opinion Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Richmond County (Alison M. Hamanjian, Ct.Atty.Ref.), dated December 14, 2015. The order, without a hearing, temporarily changed the father's visitation from unsupervised to supervised.
ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.
The order appealed from expired by its own terms during the pendency of this appeal and was superseded by a subsequent order granting the father's petition for expanded, unsupervised visitation. Accordingly, this appeal has been rendered academic. Contrary to the father's contention, the appeal does not fall within the exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of Hearst Corp. v. Clyne, 50 N.Y.2d 707, 714, 431 N.Y.S.2d 400, 409 N.E.2d 876 ; Matter of Hui C. v. Jian Xing Z., 132 A.D.3d 427, 17 N.Y.S.3d 294 ; Matter of Carlos G. [Bernadette M.], 96 A.D.3d 632, 633, 947 N.Y.S.2d 468 ; Matter of Agina v. Agina, 78 A.D.3d 691, 911 N.Y.S.2d 108 ; Matter of Walker v. Bowman, 70 A.D.3d 1323, 893 N.Y.S.2d 775 ; Matter of Foley [Messina], 150 A.D.2d 884, 541 N.Y.S.2d 141 ).
MASTRO, J.P., RIVERA, SGROI and MALTESE, JJ., concur.