Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M45458

F/

GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, J.P.

REINALDO E. RIVERA

ROBERT A. SPOLZINO

ROBERT A. LIFSON, JJ.

2006-04770, 2006-04772, 2006-04773 In the Matter of Ailayah Shawneque L. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., petitioners-respondents; Melvin Leon L. (Anonymous), appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Aziz Melvin L. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., petitioners-respondents; Melvin Leon L. (Anonymous), appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 2) In the Matter of Jabreel Rashin L. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, et al., petitioners-respondents; Melvin Leon L. (Anonymous), appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 3) (Docket Nos. B-7154-02, B-7155-02, B-7156-02)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION Motion for Poor Person Relief and to Assign New Counsel Family Court

Motion by the appellant pro se for leave to prosecute appeals from three orders of the Family Court, Kings County, all dated March 23, 2006, as a poor person, and for the assignment of counsel.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and no papers having been filed in opposition or 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 appellant, 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 m intues 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 appellant's 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. Assigned counsel is directed to provide copies of said transcripts to all of the other parties to the appeals, including the Law Guardian, if any, when counsel serves the appellant's brief upon those parties; and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to Family Court Act § 1120 the following named attorney is assigned as counsel to prosecute the appeals:

Joseph R. Faraguna, Esq.

P.O. Box 122

Sag Harbor, New York 11963

(631) 514-5547

and it is further,

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

KRAUSMAN, J.P., RIVERA, SPOLZINO, and LIFSON, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court