Matter of Herkimer County Dept. of Social Servs. (Rachel W.)
2012 NY Slip Op 07510 [100 AD3d 1442]
November 9, 2012
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 26, 2012
As corrected through Wednesday, December 26, 2012


In the Matter of Herkimer County Department of Social Services, on Behalf of Michael S., Respondent. Rachel W., Respondent; Simone M. Shaheen, Esq., Attorney for the Child, Appellant.

[*1] Simone M. Shaheen, Attorney for the Child, Utica, appellant pro se.

Robert J. Malone, County Attorney, Herkimer (Jacquelyn M. Asnoe of counsel), for petitioner-respondent.

Albert F. Lawrence, Greenfield Center, for respondent-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Herkimer County (John J. Brennan, J.), dated December 15, 2011. The order, among other things, directed that the subject child be returned to respondent.

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—Centra, J.P., Peradotto, Lindley, Sconiers and Martoche, JJ.