Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2016

Matter of Patricia A. (Norman A.)

Matter of Patricia A. (Norman A.)
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided June 28, 2016 · Sweeny, Acosta, Feinman, Kapnick, Webber
140 A.D.3d 618; 33 N.Y.S.3d 712
Matter of Patricia A. (Norman A.)

Opinion

Order, Family Court, New York

County (Stewart H. Weinstein, J.), entered on or about April 28, 2015, which denied respondent parents’ motion to change the subject children’s permanency goal from adoption to reunification, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The appeal is not moot (see Matter of Jacelyn TT. [Tonia *619 TT. — Carlton TT.], 80 AD3d 1119, 1120 [3d Dept 2011]). In the order on appeal, Family Court properly denied respondents’ motion, because a preponderance of the evidence in the record supported the determination that the permanency goal of adoption was in the children’s best interest (id. at 1120-1121; see also Matter of Cristella B., 65 AD3d 1037, 1039 [2d Dept 2009]).

We have considered respondents’ remaining contentions and find them unavailing.

Concur — Sweeny, J.P., Acosta, Feinman, Kapnick and Webber, JJ.

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