SCARLETT S. (ANONYMOUS). SUFFOLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, RESPONDENT-ap; LACEY P. (ANONYMOUS), ET AL., APPELLANTS-res

MATTER OF SCARLETT S. (ANONYMOUS). SUFFOLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, RESPONDENT-ap; LACEY P. (ANONYMOUS), ET AL., APPELLANTS-res — (PROCEEDING NO. 2) (DOCKET NOS. N-14861-12, N-14862-12, N-14867-12, N-14868-12, N-21449-12, N-21453-12, N-21455-12, N-21465-12, N-21469-12, N-21483-12)Appeals from stated portions of an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Caren Loguerico, J.), dated December 12, 2013, and appeals and a cross-appeal from an order of fact-finding and disposition of that court dated December 20, 2013. The order dated December 12, 2013, after a fact-finding hearing, inter alia, denied that branch of the mother's motion which was to dismiss the petition alleging that she neglected the children by her misuse and abuse of prescription medication. The order of fact-finding and disposition dated December 20, 2013, after the fact-finding hearing, in effect, dismissed the petitions alleging that the father, the mother, and the maternal grandmother abused the child Richard S. and derivatively neglected the child Scarlett S., and the petition alleging that the father neglected the children by his misuse and abuse of prescription medication and failure to protect the children from the misuse and abuse of prescription medication by the mother, and found that the father, the mother, and the maternal grandmother medically neglected the child Richard S. and thereby derivatively neglected the child Scarlett S., and that the mother neglected the subject children by her misuse and abuse of prescription medication, and, upon the parties' consent, placed the subject children in the custody of the Suffolk County Commissioner of Social Services and kinship foster care of the paternal grandmother.

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MATTER OF SCARLETT S. (ANONYMOUS). SUFFOLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, RESPONDENT-ap; LACEY P. (ANONYMOUS), ET AL., APPELLANTS-res — (PROCEEDING NO. 2) (DOCKET NOS. N-14861-12, N-14862-12, N-14867-12, N-14868-12, N-21449-12, N-21453-12, N-21455-12, N-21465-12, N-21469-12, N-21483-12)Appeals from stated portions of an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (Caren Loguerico, J.), dated December 12, 2013, and appeals and a cross-appeal from an order of fact-finding and disposition of that court dated December 20, 2013. The order dated December 12, 2013, after a fact-finding hearing, inter alia, denied that branch of the mother’s motion which was to dismiss the petition alleging that she neglected the children by her misuse and abuse of prescription medication. The order of fact-finding and disposition dated December 20, 2013, after the fact-finding hearing, in effect, dismissed the petitions alleging that the father, the mother, and the maternal grandmother abused the child Richard S. and derivatively neglected the child Scarlett S., and the petition alleging that the father neglected the children by his misuse and abuse of prescription medication and failure to protect the children from the misuse and abuse of prescription medication by the mother, and found that the father, the mother, and the maternal grandmother medically neglected the child Richard S. and thereby derivatively neglected the child Scarlett S., and that the mother neglected the subject children by her misuse and abuse of prescription medication, and, upon the parties’ consent, placed the subject children in the custody of the Suffolk County Commissioner of Social Services and kinship foster care of the paternal grandmother.

ORDERED that on the Court’s own motion, the petitioner’s notice of cross-appeal from the order dated December 12, 2013, is deemed a premature notice of cross-appeal from the order of fact-finding and disposition (see CPLR 5520[c]); and it is further,

SCARLETT S. (ANONYMOUS). SUFFOLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, RESPONDENT-ap; LACEY P. (ANONYMOUS), ET AL., APPELLANTS-res

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