Matter of D'Elyn Delilah W. (Liza Carmen T.)

Appeal from order, Family Court, New York County (Susan M. Doherty, Ref.), entered on or about April 29, 2014, which, after a hearing, denied respondent mother’s application to modify an order of disposition to provide increased visitation with the subject child, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as moot.

The mother’s appeal has been rendered moot by the termination of her parental rights following a finding of permanent neglect. Family Court lacks authority to direct continuing contact between a parent and child where, as here, parental rights have been terminated in a contested…