Matter of Dakota W.
2009 NY Slip Op 02183 [60 AD3d 1409]
March 20, 2009
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 6, 2009


In the Matter of Dakota W., an Infant. Genesee County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Cheryl L., Appellant.

—[*1] Joseph T. Jarzembek, Buffalo, for respondent-appellant.

John L. Rizzo, County Attorney, Batavia (Paula A. Campbell of counsel), for petitioner-respondent.

Linda M. Jones, Law Guardian, Batavia, for Dakota W.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Genesee County (Eric R. Adams, J.), entered October 30, 2007 in a proceeding pursuant to Social Services Law § 384-b. The order, among other things, transferred the guardianship and custody of the subject child to petitioner.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs for reasons stated in the decision at Family Court. Present—Smith, J.P., Fahey, Peradotto, Carni and Gorski, JJ.