Matter of Benitez v. Mendez

— Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Richmond County (Alison M. Hamanjian, Ct. Atty. Ref.), dated December 14, 2015. The order, without a hearing, temporarily changed the father’s visitation from unsupervised to supervised.

Ordered that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

The order appealed from expired by its own terms during the pendency of this appeal and was superseded by a subsequent order granting the father’s petition for expanded, unsupervised visitation. Accordingly, this appeal has been rendered academic. Contrary to the father’s contention, the…