Matter of Bartley v Pringle

2011 NY Slip Op 08937 [90 AD3d 653]

December 6, 2011

Appellate Division, Second Department

As corrected through Wednesday, February 1, 2012

In the Matter of George Bartley, Respondent, v ReneePringle, Respondent, and Jeanette Pringle, Respondent. Karen P. Simmons, NonpartyAppellant.

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Karen P. Simmons, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Barbara H. Dildine and Janet Neustaetter ofcounsel), appellant pro se.

In a custody and visitation proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, Karen P.Simmons, the Attorney for the Child, appeals from an order of the Family Court, Kings County(Krauss, J.), dated November 30, 2010, which granted the petitioner father's motion to dismissthe maternal grandmother's cross petition for custody of the subject child and granted the father'spetition for custody of the subject child.

Ordered that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

Since the child is now over 18 years of age, she is no longer subject to the order appealedfrom, and the appeal must be dismissed as academic (see Matter of Merando v Vantassel, 66 AD3d 783 [2009]). Mastro,A.P.J., Eng, Belen and Hall, JJ., concur.