Opinion
2000-06766
Submitted April 29, 2002.
June 18, 2002.
In four related proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, the mother appeals from an order of the Family Court, Orange County (Bivona, J.), entered May 31, 2000, which extended the placement of her children with the Commissioner of the Orange County Department of Social Services for 12 months, and required any visits with the children to be supervised by the Commissioner.
Richard L. Herzfeld, P.C., New York, N.Y., for appellant.
David L. Darwin, Acting County Attorney, Goshen, N.Y. (Christine Foy-Stage and Melissa G. Eisenberg of counsel), for respondent.
Todd D. Kadish, Brooklyn, N.Y., Law Guardian for the children.
Before: SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, J.P., GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, DANIEL F. LUCIANO, STEPHEN G. CRANE, JJ.
ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.
Generally, an appeal from an expired placement order should be dismissed as academic (see Matter of R., 275 A.D.2d 717, 718; Matter of Ciara M., 273 A.D.2d 312, 314; Matter of Susan B., 264 A.D.2d 478). The extension of placement appealed from expired on April 28, 2001. Accordingly, the instant appeal is academic and does not fall within an exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of Hearst Corp. v. Clyne, 50 N.Y.2d 707, 714-715; Matter of Robert McCue, 281 A.D.2d 420).
FEUERSTEIN, J.P., KRAUSMAN, LUCIANO and CRANE, JJ., concur.