Opinion
2018-00639 2018-05457 2018-06302 Docket Nos. NN-04462-17, NN-04463-17, V-21506-17
12-11-2019
In the MATTER OF ISAAC S. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, Respondent; v. Miriam S. (Anonymous), et al., Appellants. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Faigy S. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, Respondent; v. Miriam S. (Anonymous), et al., Appellants. (Proceeding No. 2)
Miriam S., Brooklyn, N.Y., appellant pro se. Israel S., Brooklyn, N.Y., appellant pro se. James E. Johnson, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Deborah A. Brenner and Zachary S. Shapiro of counsel), for respondent. Denise S. Siler, New York, N.Y., attorney for the child Isaac S. Rhonda R. Weir, Brooklyn, N.Y., attorney for the child Faigy S.
Miriam S., Brooklyn, N.Y., appellant pro se.
Israel S., Brooklyn, N.Y., appellant pro se.
James E. Johnson, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Deborah A. Brenner and Zachary S. Shapiro of counsel), for respondent.
Denise S. Siler, New York, N.Y., attorney for the child Isaac S.
Rhonda R. Weir, Brooklyn, N.Y., attorney for the child Faigy S.
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P., LEONARD B. AUSTIN, HECTOR D. LASALLE, BETSY BARROS, JJ.
DECISION & ORDER In related proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, the mother appeals from (1) a temporary order of protection of the Family Court, Kings County (Ilana Gruebel, J.), dated November 14, 2017, (2) a temporary order of protection of the same court dated May 9, 2018, and (3) an order of the same court dated May 1, 2018, and the father separately appeals from the temporary order of protection dated May 9, 2018, and order dated May 1, 2018. The temporary order of protection dated November 14, 2017, directed the mother and the father to stay away from the two subject children until and including March 5, 2018. The temporary order of protection dated May 9, 2018, directed the mother and the father to stay away from the two subject children until and including June 25, 2018. The order dated May 1, 2018, directed the mother and the father to obtain the court's permission before filing any further motions in these proceedings.
ORDERED that the appeals from the temporary orders of protection dated November 14, 2017, and May 9, 2018, are dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,
ORDERED that the order dated May 1, 2018, is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The appeals from the temporary orders of protection must be dismissed as academic because those orders have expired by their own terms and impose no enduring consequences on the mother or the father (see Matter of Shanee R. [Young], 173 A.D.3d 1187, 101 N.Y.S.3d 620 ; Matter of Hannah T.R. [Soya R.], 149 A.D.3d 957, 52 N.Y.S.3d 406 ; Matter of Hannah T.R. [Soya R.], 145 A.D.3d 1012, 42 N.Y.S.3d 850 ; Matter of Kayla F. [Kevin F.], 130 A.D.3d 724, 13 N.Y.S.3d 504 ; Matter of Andrea V. [James A.], 128 A.D.3d 1077, 9 N.Y.S.3d 669 ; Matter of Baby Boy D. [Adanna C.], 127 A.D.3d 1079, 9 N.Y.S.3d 73 ).
The Family Court providently exercised its discretion in directing the mother and the father to obtain the court's permission before filing any further motions in these proceedings. While public policy generally mandates free access to the courts (see DiSilvio v. Romanelli, 150 A.D.3d 1078, 56 N.Y.S.3d 162 ; Matter of Taub v. Taub, 94 A.D.3d 901, 942 N.Y.S.2d 145 ; Scholar v. Timinisky, 87 A.D.3d 577, 928 N.Y.S.2d 83 ; Dimery v. Ulster Sav. Bank, 82 A.D.3d 1034, 920 N.Y.S.2d 144 ; Matter of Leopold, 287 A.D.2d 718, 732 N.Y.S.2d 56 ), the record reflects that the mother and the father forfeited this right by abusing the judicial process through vexatious litigation (see Matter of Taub v. Taub, 94 A.D.3d 901, 942 N.Y.S.2d 145 ; Vogelgesang v. Vogelgesang, 71 A.D.3d 1132, 899 N.Y.S.2d 272 ).
The mother's and the father's challenge to the Family Court's order directing supervised parental access and permitting the parents to only send letters to one of the subject children is not properly before this Court because neither party appealed from that order (see Family Ct. Act § 1113 ; Matter of Lucinda A. [Luba A.], 120 A.D.3d 492, 990 N.Y.S.2d 627 ; Matter of Mark P. v. Jamie Q., 64 A.D.3d 921, 881 N.Y.S.2d 731 ; Matter of Sanders v. Slater, 53 A.D.3d 716, 861 N.Y.S.2d 461 ).
CHAMBERS, J.P., AUSTIN, LASALLE and BARROS, JJ., concur.