Matter of Sarah C.B.
2012 NY Slip Op 00552 [91 AD3d 1282]
January 31, 2012
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 29, 2012


In the Matter of Sarah C.B., Appellant. Livingston County Attorney, Respondent.

Charles Plovanich, Rochester, Attorney for the Child, for respondent-appellant.

Appeal from an amended order of the Family Court, Livingston County (Robert B. Wiggins, J.), entered March 9, 2011 in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 7. The amended order, among other things, adjudged that respondent is a person in need of supervision. It is hereby ordered that said appeal from that part of the amended order that directed respondent to abide by certain conditions is unanimously dismissed, and the amended order is otherwise affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Respondent appeals from an amended order adjudicating her to be a person in need of supervision (PINS) and directing her to abide by certain conditions, including an order of protection. We note at the outset that respondent's contentions regarding those conditions have been rendered moot inasmuch as that part of the amended order has expired by its own terms (see generally Matter of Demitrus B., 89 AD3d 1421 [2011]; Matter of Donna Marie M. v Timothy A.M., 30 AD3d 1012 [2006]). We therefore dismiss the appeal from that part of the amended order. Contrary to respondent's contention, Family Court "may, with the consent of petitioner, substitute a petition alleging that respondent is a person in need of supervision for a petition alleging that . . . she is a juvenile delinquent" (Matter of Felix G., 56 AD3d 1285 [2008]; see Family Ct Act 311.4 [1]). Here, respondent not only agreed to such a substitution but she in fact moved to substitute a PINS petition for the juvenile delinquency petition that was filed originally, and we thus conclude that she waived her current contentions concerning that substitution. Furthermore, by consenting to the amendment of the juvenile delinquency petition, respondent also waived her contentions regarding that amendment. Finally, we reject respondent's contention that the original juvenile delinquency petition was defective. Contrary to respondent's contention, the "non-hearsay allegations of the factual part of the petition or of any supporting depositions establish, if true, every element of each crime charged and the respondent's commission thereof" (Family Ct Act 311.2 [3]). Specifically, the petition sufficiently alleged that the victim suffered an "impairment of physical condition or substantial pain" (Penal Law 10.00 [9]; see generally People v Chiddick, 8 NY3d 445, 447 [2007]). Present Scudder, P.J., Smith, Centra, Lindley and Gorski, JJ.