| Matter of Shakima S. |
| 2009 NY Slip Op 02370 [60 AD3d 955] |
| March 24, 2009 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Shakima S., a Child Alleged to be Neglected. Administration for Children's Services, Respondent; Simone M., Respondent, Shaun S., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 1.) In the Matter of Joseph T.M., a Child Alleged to be Neglected. Administration for Children's Services, Respondent; Simone M., Respondent, Shaun S., Appellant. (Proceeding No. 2.) |
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Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York, N.Y. (Edward F. X. Hart and Drake
A. Colley of counsel), for petitioner-respondent.
Steven Banks, New York, N.Y. (Tamara A. Steckler and Claire V. Merkine of counsel),
attorney for the children.
In two related child protective proceedings pursuant to Family Court Act article 10, Shaun S. appeals from so much of an order of the Family Court, Kings County (Freeman, J.), dated September 18, 2007, as relieved his attorney from representing him, based upon his failure to appear in the matter for more than six months.
Ordered that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements. [*2]
This appeal has been rendered academic inasmuch as, subsequent to the court's order relieving counsel, the matter proceeded to a dispositional hearing, an order of disposition was entered, and the father is not appealing from that order of disposition. Skelos, J.P., Fisher, Dickerson and Belen, JJ., concur.