Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M56290

F/

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

DAVID S. RITTER

ANITA R. FLORIO

STEVEN W. FISHER, JJ.

2007-03773 In the Matter of Bill Jurow, appellant, v Karen Cahill, respondent. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Karen Cahill, respondent, v Bill Jurow, appellant. (Proceeding No. 2) (Docket Nos. O-10086-06, O-10527-06, O-10529-06)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION Motion for Poor Person Relief Family Court

Motion by the appellant pro se on an appeal from an order of the Family Court, Nassau County, dated March 26, 2007, for leave to prosecute , as a poor person, to be furnished with a copy of the typewritten transcripts of the proceedings, if any, without charge, and to waive the filing fee.

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 appeal 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 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 appellant, 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 appellant. Appellant is directed to provide copies of said transcripts to all of the other parties to the appeal, including the Law Guardian, if any, when appellant serves the appellant's brief upon those parties; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellant shall prosecute the appeal 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 appellant is directed to serve a copy of this order upon the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken.

RIVERA, J.P., RITTER, FLORIO, and FISHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court