Mary R. v. Sullivan County Department of Social Services

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Sullivan County (Meddaugh, J.), entered April 13, 1994, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 3, for modification of a prior placement order.

Petitioner’s son was adjudicated to be a juvenile delinquent by Family Court in January 1993 and he was placed with respondent for residential placement. Petitioner filed the instant petition seeking to modify Family Court’s prior order and to have her son returned to her custody. During the pendency of this appeal from the order which dismissed the…