Case Name: In the Matter of Gloria Benitez, Respondent, v. Eduard Mendez, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2016-06-29
Citations: 140 A.D.3d 1158
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Gloria Benitez, Respondent, v Eduard Mendez, Appellant.
Judges: Mastro, J.P., Rivera, Sgroi and Maltese, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 140
Pages: 1158–1159

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Gloria Benitez, Respondent, v Eduard Mendez, Appellant.
[33 NYS3d 756]

Opinion:
— Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Richmond County (Alison M. Hamanjian, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated December 14, 2015. The order, without a hearing, temporarily changed the father's visitation from unsupervised to supervised.
Ordered that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.
The order appealed from expired by its own terms during the pendency of this appeal and was superseded by a subsequent order granting the father's petition for expanded, unsupervised visitation. Accordingly, this appeal has been rendered academic. Contrary to the father's contention, the appeal does not fall within the exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of Hearst Corp. v Clyne, 50 NY2d 707, 714 [1980]; Matter of Hui C. v Jian Xing Z., 132 AD3d 427 [2015]; Matter of Carlos G. [Bernadette M.], 96 AD3d-632, 633 [2012]; Matter of Agina v Agina, 78 AD3d 691 [2010]; Matter of Walker v Bowman, 70 AD3d 1323 [2010]; Matter of Foley [Messina], 150 AD2d 884 [1989]).
Mastro, J.P., Rivera, Sgroi and Maltese, JJ., concur.