Opinion
Submitted October 13, 1999
November 15, 1999
Jeffrey C. Bluth, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.
Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Francis F. Caputo and George Gutwirth of counsel), for respondent.
Monica Drinane, New York, N.Y. (Diane Pazar of counsel), Law Guardian for the child.
SONDRA MILLER, J.P., WILLIAM C. THOMPSON, GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, ANITA R. FLORIO, NANCY E. SMITH, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
In a neglect proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, Laura F. appeals from an order of disposition of the Family Court, Queens County (Berman, J.), dated November 24, 1997, which, upon a fact-finding order of the same court dated June 19, 1997, made upon the appellant's admission that she had neglected her child, placed the child in the custody of the Department of Social Services for a period of 12 months.
ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.
The appeal from the dispositional order must be dismissed as academic because that order expired by its own terms on November 24, 1998 (see, Matter of Lockett S. v. Onya S., 247 A.D.2d 622 ;Matter of Richard S., 242 A.D.2d 575 ; Matter of Ricardo R., 220 A.D.2d 431 ; Matter of Commissioner of Social Servs. of City of N Y v. Abigail A., 219 A.D.2d 652).
S. MILLER, J.P., THOMPSON, KRAUSMAN, FLORIO, and SMITH, JJ., concur.