| Matter of Director, Jefferson County Community Servs. v Alexander J. |
| 2023 NY Slip Op 06648 [222 AD3d 1406] |
| December 22, 2023 |
| Appellate Division, Fourth Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Director, Jefferson County Community
Services, Appellant, v Alexander J., Also Known as Renee J., Respondent. |
David J. Paulsen, County Attorney, Watertown (Terence M. Brennen of counsel), for petitioner-appellant.
Elizabeth S. Fortino, Director, Mental Hygiene Legal Service, Utica (David A. Eghigian of counsel), for respondent-respondent.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Jefferson County (James P. McClusky, J.), entered December 14, 2022, in a proceeding pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law article 9. The order granted the motion of respondent to proceed with an anonymous name.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs for reasons stated in the decision at Supreme Court. Present—Whalen, P.J., Curran, Ogden, Greenwood and Nowak, JJ.