Matter of Jayden G. (Debra F.)

Summary

The New York Appellate Division, Third Department dismissed as moot the paternal grandmother's appeal from a permanency hearing order continuing the placement of the subject child in foster care and the permanency goal of reunification. The court held that subsequent permanency hearing orders rendered the appeal moot and that no exception to the mootness doctrine applied.

Holdings

1. The appeal was rendered moot because two subsequent permanency hearing orders continued the child's placement and the permanency goal of reunification.
2. The exception to the mootness doctrine did not apply under the circumstances of this case.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the grandmother's appeal from the permanency hearing order was rendered moot by the issuance of two subsequent permanency hearing orders continuing the child's placement and the reunification goal.
2. Whether an exception to the mootness doctrine applied despite the subsequent orders.

Disposition

dismissed