Matter of Battle v Thomson
2013 NY Slip Op 00736 [103 AD3d 630]
February 6, 2013
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 27, 2013


In the Matter of Gillian Battle, Appellant,
v
William Thomson, Respondent.

[*1] Cheryl Charles-Duval, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant.

Van Leer & Greenberg, New York, N.Y. (Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg and Evan Van Leer-Greenberg of counsel), for respondent.

Michael E. Lipson, Jericho, N.Y., attorney for the child.

In a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the mother appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Queens County (McGrady, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated October 24, 2011, as dismissed her petition to modify an order of custody and visitation dated July 22, 2010.

Ordered that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

The mother contends that the Family Court erred in dismissing her petition to modify an order of custody and visitation dated July 22, 2010, without a full hearing and without considering, inter alia, the reports of the therapeutic social worker. However, this Court's decision and order in Matter of Thomson v Battle (99 AD3d 804 [2012]), which reversed the order dated July 22, 2010, and remitted the matter to the Family Court, Queens County, for a new hearing, renders the issue raised by the mother academic. Accordingly, her appeal must be dismissed as academic. Dillon, J.P., Angiolillo, Leventhal and Miller, JJ., concur.