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IN RE: B.M. (2025)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

IN RE: B.M., Petitioner-Appellant, v. ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN'S SERVICES-NEW YORK, et al., Respondent-Respondents.

5230

Decided: November 25, 2025

Webber, J.P., Kennedy, González, Higgitt, Michael, JJ.

Deborah D. Clegg, Croton Falls, for appellant. John R. Eyerman, New York, for Seamans Society for Children and Families, respondent. Karen Freedman, Lawyers for Children, Inc., New York (Shirim Nothenberg of counsel), attorney for the child.

Appeal from order, Family Court, New York County (Betsey Jean–Jacques, J.), entered on or about June 3, 2024, which dismissed appellant's petition for custody of the subject child, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as academic.

The appeal from the order dismissing appellant's petition for custody of the child is academic in light of the fact that the child has been adopted by the child's foster mother (see Matter of Axel W. [Jacqueline S.], 233 A.D.3d 501, 501, 221 N.Y.S.3d 119 [1st Dept. 2024];  Matter of Sandra M. v. Che M., 204 A.D.3d 491, 491, 164 N.Y.S.3d 452 [1st Dept. 2022];  Matter of Carmen P. v. Administration for Children's Servs., 149 A.D.3d 577, 577, 50 N.Y.S.3d 275 [1st Dept. 2017]).

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IN RE: B.M. (2025)

Docket No: 5230

Decided: November 25, 2025

Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

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