ROGERS, C.J.
The petitioner, Jessica M., appealed to the Appellate Court from the judgment of the trial court dismissing her petition seeking to have herself adjudicated as neglected and as an uncared-for youth, filed pursuant to General Statutes § 46b-129 (a).
The Appellate Court's opinion sets forth the following facts and procedural history. "On November 5, 2009, [the] then seventeen year old [petitioner] filed a petition in the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters in Hartford, alleging that she was neglected and uncared for as defined by General Statutes § 46b-120. On December 17, 2009, the department of children and families (department) successfully moved to intervene in the proceedings. The court also set a trial date of January 4, 2010, which was prior to [the petitioner's] eighteenth birthday.
"On that date, the court continued the matter due to (1) [the petitioner's] failure to arrange for interpreters for two witnesses and (2) its granting of a motion in limine filed by the department. The court, on its own motion, transferred the case to the Child Protection Session in Middletown. Although a second trial date before [the petitioner's] eighteenth birthday was offered, counsel for [the petitioner's] mother was unavailable for that day. A trial date was scheduled for February 26, 2010, approximately five weeks after [the petitioner] had reached the age of eighteen.
"On February 5, 2010, the department filed a motion to dismiss the petition. It argued that the court, specifically, the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters, lacked jurisdiction over adults, individuals over the age of seventeen. The department further claimed that the court lacked statutory authority to adjudicate an individual over the age of seventeen as neglected or uncared for, even if the petition had been filed prior to the individual's eighteenth birthday. Last, the department argued that [the petitioner's] petition was moot.
"The court heard oral argument on the motion to dismiss and issued its memorandum of decision on March 16, 2010. The court concluded that it lost subject matter jurisdiction and that the matter had become moot as of [the petitioner's] `ceasing to be a child or youth.' Additionally, it stated that because the court was unable to issue any order committing [the petitioner] to the custody of the department, or transferring guardianship over her to another person, the case was moot and no exception to that doctrine applied. Accordingly, the court granted the department's motion to dismiss the neglect and uncared-for petition." In re Jessica M., supra, 125 Conn.App. at 586-87, 11 A.3d 689.
In In re Jose B., 303 Conn. 569, 34 A.3d 975 (2012), which was released on the same date as this opinion, we concluded that the trial court lacks statutory authority to adjudicate a person neglected or uncared-for pursuant to § 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 § 46b-129 (j).
This conclusion disposes of the petitioner's claim that the Appellate Court improperly declined to address her claim that her petition was not moot because it falls within the collateral consequences exception to the mootness doctrine. See Williams v. Ragaglia, 261 Conn. 219, 226, 802 A.2d 778 (2002) ("despite developments during the pendency of an appeal that would otherwise render a claim moot, the court may retain jurisdiction when a litigant shows that there is a reasonable possibility that prejudicial collateral consequences will occur" [internal quotation marks omitted]). Specifically, she claims that, because an adjudication of neglect pursuant to § 46b-129 (a) would enable her to seek special immigrant juvenile status from the federal government, her claim for an adjudication of neglect was not moot even if the trial court could not grant dispositional relief pursuant to § 46b-129 (j). We have concluded, however, that, not only did the trial court lack statutory authority to provide dispositional relief to the petitioner after she reached her eighteenth birthday, it also lacked statutory authority to adjudicate the petitioner neglected or uncared-for. The collateral consequences doctrine cannot confer statutory authority on the trial court that is otherwise lacking. Accordingly, we reject this claim.
The judgment of the Appellate Court is affirmed.
In this opinion the other justices concurred.