Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M62960

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REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

JOSEPH COVELLO

RUTH C. BALKIN

WILLIAM E. McCARTHY, JJ.

2007-05608 In the Matter of Ainsley Watson, appellant, v Karen Smith, respondent. (Docket Nos. V-11915-06, V-12039-06)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant on an appeal from an order of the Family Court, Nassau County, dated April 30, 2007, inter alia, to deem the transcript to be correct without a stipulation or settlement by a judge or referee and to enlarge the time to perfect the appeal.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and no papers having been filed in opposition to or in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that on the court's own motion, on or before December 14, 2007, the appellant is directed to make a motion in the Family Court, Nassau County, to settle the transcript; and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion is granted to the extent that the appellant's time to perfect the appeal by causing the original papers constituting the record on the appeal to be filed in the office of the Clerk of this court (see 22 NYCRR 670.9[d][2]) and by serving and filing his brief on the appeal is enlarged until February 13, 2008, and the motion is otherwise denied.

RIVERA, J.P., COVELLO, BALKIN and McCARTHY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court