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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Deamari W. and Another, Infants. Monroe County Department of Human Services, Appellant; Howard W., Respondent.
    [921 NYS2d 617]
   Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Monroe County (Maija C. Dixon, A.J.), entered January 20, 2010 in a proceeding pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b. The order dismissed the petition for termination of parental rights.

It is hereby ordered that said appeal is unanimously dismissed without costs.

Memorandum: In this termination of parental rights proceeding, petitioner appeals from an order that dismissed its petition after a hearing. We take judicial notice of the fact that, subsequent to the entry of the order in this appeal, petitioner filed another petition also seeking to terminate the parental rights of respondent father, a finding of permanent neglect was entered on that petition, and the father’s parental rights were terminated. Although the father filed a notice of appeal from the subsequent order, the appeal from that order was dismissed. Consequently, we dismiss this appeal as moot because the father’s parental rights with respect to the children that are the subject of the instant petition have been terminated (see generally Matter of Kim OO. v Broome County Dept. of Social Servs., 44 AD3d 1164 [2007]; Matter of Kila DD., 34 AD3d 1168 [2006]; Matter of Melody B., 234 AD2d 1005 [1996], lv dismissed 90 NY2d 888 [1997]). Present—Smith, J.P., Peradotto, Lindley, Sconiers and Martoche, JJ.