MATTER OF HELENA DIMASSE V JOSEPH A. DIMASSE, JR.
Motion No: CAF 09-00090
Slip Opinion No: 2009 NYSlipOp 63888(U)
Decided on February 18, 2009
Appellate Division, Fourth Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


February 18, 2009

PRESENT: SCUDDER, P. J., HURLBUTT, MARTOCHE, SMITH, AND CENTRA, JJ.

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 09-00090
DOCKET NO. V-06226-03/08D

MATTER OF HELENA DIMASSE, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT,

V

JOSEPH A. DIMASSE, JR., RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.


Petitioner-respondent having applied for permission to respond to the appeal taken herein from an order of the Family Court, Oneida County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on November 14, 2008, as a poor person, and for assignment of counsel,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of Maryangela Scalzo, Esq., dated December 31, 2008, the statement of Raymond Bara, Esq., dated January 9, 2009, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Abbie Goldbas, Esq., 1900 Bleecker Street, Utica, New York 13501, is hereby assigned as counsel for petitioner-respondent herein and may submit ten copies of respondent's brief reproduced in accordance with CPLR 5529.

Entered: February 18, 2009

JOANN M. WAHL, Clerk