Opinion
July 20, 1995
Appeal from the Family Court of Sullivan County (Meddaugh, J.).
Petitioner's son was adjudicated to be a juvenile delinquent by Family Court in January 1993 and he was placed with respondent for residential placement. Petitioner filed the instant petition seeking to modify Family Court's prior order and to have her son returned to her custody. During the pendency of this appeal from the order which dismissed the petition, the placement of petitioner's son, which had been extended for six months, expired and he returned to petitioner's custody. The Law Guardian's appeal is, therefore, moot ( see, Matter of Demitris O., 193 A.D.2d 977, lv denied 82 N.Y.2d 655), and no exception to the mootness doctrine is applicable ( see, Matter of Jason S., 208 A.D.2d 1015).
Mikoll, J.P., Mercure, Crew III and Yesawich Jr., JJ., concur. Ordered that the appeal is dismissed, as moot, without costs.