Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M60455

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DAVID S. RITTER, J.P.

FRED T. SANTUCCI

ROBERT A. LIFSON

MARK C. DILLON, JJ.

2007-05263 In the Matter of Tanisha Heard, appellant, v Brandon I. Ganaishlal, respondent. (Docket No. V-22095/00)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant pro se for leave to prosecute an appeal from an order of the Family Court, Kings County, dated April 30, 2007, as a poor person, and for the assignment of counsel. Cross motion by the Law Guardian to dismiss the appeal as academic.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the cross motion, and the papers filed in opposition 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. The parties are directed to file nine copies of their respective briefs and to serve one copy on each other (see 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, 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 appeal, including the Law Guardian, 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 appeal:

Kenneth M. Tuccillo, Esq.

251 e. 61st Street

New York, N.Y. 10021

(718) 439-4843

and it is further,

ORDERED that the assigned counsel 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 assigned counsel is directed to serve a copy of this order upon the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken; and it is further,

ORDERED that the cross motion is denied without prejudice to the Law Guardian raising the issue in her brief.

RITTER, J.P., SANTUCCI, LIFSON and DILLON, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court