In re Jose B.
Annotate this CaseTwo days before his eighteenth birthday, Petitioner filed a petition seeking to have himself adjudicated as neglected and as an uncared-for youth. The trial court dismissed the petition as moot because, two days after Petitioner filed it, he reached his eighteenth birthday. The appellate court affirmed, concluding that the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the neglect petition. The Supreme Court affirmed but on an alternate ground, holding that the trial court lacks statutory authority to adjudicate a person neglected or uncare-for pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. 46b-129(a) after the person reaches the age of eighteen years, and, therefore, the court necessarily lacks statutory authority to provide dispositional relief to such a person pursuant to Conn. Gen. Stat. 46b-129(j).
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