Marisela N. v. Lacy M.S.

Order, Family Court, Bronx County (David B. Cohen, J.), entered on or about November 9, 2012, which, inter alia, denied appellant paternal grandmother’s motion to vacate a two-year order of protection for the benefit of the subject children and petitioner-respondent mother, dated January 19, 2012, issued after a hearing, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Although the order of protection has expired, the appeal is not moot because the grandmother continues to suffer a permanent and enduring stigma from the order and the underlying findings against her (see Matter of Diallo v Diallo, 68 AD3d…