Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-05-05 15:10:23.153188+00
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State of New York
                    Supreme Court, Appellate Division
                       Third Judicial Department
Decided and Entered: May 5, 2016                        521074
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In the Matter of MICKAYLA WW.,
   Alleged to be a Person in
   Need of Supervision.

SULLIVAN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF
   FAMILY SERVICES,                          MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
                    Respondent;

MICKAYLA WW.,
                    Appellant.
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Calendar Date:    March 23, 2016

Before:    Peters, P.J., Lahtinen, Rose, Lynch and Aarons, JJ.

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     Jane M. Bloom, Monticello, for appellant.

      Glen H. Rosenstein, Sullivan County Department of Family
Services, Monticello, for respondent.

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Rose, J.

      Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Sullivan County
(McGuire, J.), entered December 29, 2014, which, in a proceeding
pursuant to Family Ct Act article 7, temporarily placed
respondent in petitioner's custody.

      Petitioner filed a juvenile delinquency petition against
respondent (born in 2001) and, at respondent's arraignment,
requested that she undergo an inpatient psychological evaluation.
Family Court granted petitioner's request and issued an initial
order placing respondent in petitioner's custody and remanding
her for an inpatient evaluation at a mental health facility.
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After the completion of the evaluation, the parties agreed that
petitioner would withdraw the juvenile delinquency petition and
file a person in need of supervision (hereinafter PINS) petition
in its place. Respondent then admitted to the allegations in the
PINS petition and, following fact-finding and dispositional
hearings, Family Court issued a December 2014 order pursuant to
Family Ct Act § 739 temporarily remanding respondent to the care
and custody of petitioner and detaining her at a residential
treatment facility pending a final dispositional order.
Respondent appeals from this temporary order.

      The appeal must be dismissed. Inasmuch as both the
language of Family Court's December 2014 detention order and its
statutory authority contemplate further proceedings related to
the underlying PINS petition (see Family Ct Act § 739 [a]), it is
a nondispositional order. Accordingly, the order is not
appealable as of right, and respondent never sought leave to
appeal from it (see Family Ct Act § 1112 [a]; Matter of McCoy v
McCoy, 134 AD3d 1206, 1207 [2015]; Matter of Tina X. v John X.,
134 AD3d 1174, 1175 [2015]). Further, we decline to treat
respondent's notice of appeal as an application for leave to
appeal, as the order has been superceded by a final order of
disposition.

      Respondent's additional challenge to Family Court's initial
order directing that she undergo an inpatient mental health
evaluation is also not properly before us. Generally, "only an
appeal from a final order brings up for review a prior order
issued in the proceeding" (Matter of Christian NN. [Luis OO.], 91
AD3d 1148, 1148 [2012]; see CPLR 5501 [a] [1]). In any event, we
note that the evaluation was completed and the resulting report
was admitted into the hearing record without objection.

     Peters, P.J., Lahtinen, Lynch and Aarons, JJ., concur.
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ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed, without costs.

                       ENTER:

                       Robert D. Mayberger
                       Clerk of the Court