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Samantha H. v. Duane H

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
Jun 5, 2008
52 A.D.3d 894 (N.Y. App. Div. 2008)

Opinion

No. 503080.

June 5, 2008.

Appeals from two orders of the Family Court of Clinton County (Lawliss, J.), entered July 17, 2007, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 10, among other things, issued an order of protection.

Diane Webster-Brady, Plattsburgh, for appellant.

John Dee, Department of Social Services, Plattsburgh, for Clinton County Department of Social Services, respondent.

Rebecca L. Fox, Schuyler Falls, for Traci I., respondent.

Omshanti Parnes, Law Guardian, Plattsburgh.

Before: Mercure, J.P., Spain, Lahtinen, Kane and Malone Jr., JJ.


Tina J. is the mother of the subject child (born in 1993) and is not a party to this neglect proceeding against respondent, the child's father. Respondent consented to an order finding Samantha H. and another child to be neglected. Following a dispositional hearing, Family Court issued an order placing Samantha H. in petitioner's custody. In connection with that order, the court also entered an order of protection directing Tina J. to refrain from communicating with and stay 1,000 feet away from the child except during periods of supervised visitation ( see Family Ct Act § 1056). The order of protection was to remain in effect until December 28, 2007.

Tina J. now appeals, as limited by her brief, from only the order of protection. That order, however, has both expired by its own terms and been superseded by a subsequent order of protection that directs Tina J. to stay away from the child at all times, with no visitation permitted. Accordingly, this appeal is moot and must be dismissed ( see Matter of Senator NN., 21 AD3d 1187, 1188; Matter of Marcel S., 15 AD3d 808, 809).

Ordered that the appeal is dismissed, as moot, without costs.


Summaries of

Samantha H. v. Duane H

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
Jun 5, 2008
52 A.D.3d 894 (N.Y. App. Div. 2008)
Case details for

Samantha H. v. Duane H

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of SAMANTHA H., a Child Alleged to be Neglected. CLINTON…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department

Date published: Jun 5, 2008

Citations

52 A.D.3d 894 (N.Y. App. Div. 2008)
2008 N.Y. Slip Op. 4970
857 N.Y.S.2d 924

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