Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M41032

C/sl

ANITA R. FLORIO, J.P.

DAVID S. RITTER

GLORIA GOLDSTEIN

ROBERT A. LIFSON, JJ.

2006-03098, 2006-03100, 2006-03101, 2006-03102, 2006-03103, 2006-03104, 2006-03661 In the Matter of Darlene L. (Anonymous). Suffolk County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Frank L. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Guy L. (Anonymous). Suffolk County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Frank L. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 2) In the Matter of Jennifer L. (Anonymous). Suffolk County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Frank L. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 3) In the Matter of Krista L. (Anonymous). Suffolk County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Frank L. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 4) In the Matter of Nicholas L. (Anonymous). Suffolk County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Frank L. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 5) In the Matter of Vincent L. (Anonymous). Suffolk County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Frank L. (Anonymous), et al., appellants. (Proceeding No. 6) (Docket Nos. B-19326-05, B-19327-05, B-19328-05, B-19329-05, B-19330-05, B-19331-05, B-19343-05, B-19344-05, B-19345-05, B-19346-05, B-19347-05, B-19348-05, B-19336-05, B-19327-05, B-19338-05, B-19339-05, B-19340-05, B-19341-05, B-19349-05, B-19350-05, B-19351-05, B-19352-05, B-19353-05, B-19354-05)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellants for leave to prosecute appeals from six orders of the Family Court, Suffolk County, all dated March 1, 2006, and an order of the same court dated February 28, 2006, as poor persons.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is granted; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appeals will be heard on the original papers (including a certified transcript of the proceedings, if any) and on the briefs of the appellants, the respondent, and the Law Guardian, if any. The parties are directed to file nine copies of their respective briefs and to serve one copy on each other (22 NYCRR 670.9[d][1][ii]; Family Ct Act § 1116); and it is further,

ORDERED that the stenographer(s) and/or the transcription service(s) is/are required promptly to make and certify two transcripts of the proceedings, if any, except for those minutes previously transcribed and certified (22 NYCRR 671.9); in the case of stenographers, both transcripts shall be filed with the clerk of the Family Court, and the clerk of the Family Court shall furnish one of such certified transcripts to the appellants' counsel, without charge; in the case of transcription services, one transcript shall be filed with the clerk of the Family Court and one transcript shall be delivered to the assigned counsel. The appellants' counsel is directed to provide copies of said transcripts to all of the other parties to the appeal, including the Law Guardian, if any, when counsel serves the appellants' brief upon those parties; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellants' counsel shall prosecute the appeals expeditiously in accordance with any scheduling order or orders issued pursuant to § 670.4(a) of the rules of this court (22 NYCRR 670.4[a]); and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellants' counsel is directed to serve a copy of this order upon the Clerk of the court from which the appeals are taken.

FLORIO, J.P., RITTER, GOLDSTEIN and LIFSON, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court