Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M93180

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PETER B. SKELOS, J.P.

ANITA R. FLORIO

RUTH C. BALKIN

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, JJ.

2009-08213, 2009-08214, 2009-08215, 2009-08216 In the Matter of Alicia Toni Gomez, appellant, v Brandon Etheridge, respondent. (Docket Nos. O-2483-09, V-2956-09, O-17440-09, V-17445-09)

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

Motion by the appellant for leave to prosecute appeals from two orders of the Family Court, Queens County, both dated August 7, 2009, and two orders of the Family Court, Queens County, both dated August 20, 2009, as a poor person, and for the assignment of counsel.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is

ORDERED that on the court's own motion, the appeals are consolidated and the parties shall file 12 copies of their respective briefs; and it is further,

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 attorney for the child, if any. The parties are directed to file twelve 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, 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 attorney for the child, 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:

Christina Brandt-Young, Esq.

New York Legal Assistance Group

450 West 33rd Street - 11TH Floor

New York, New York 10001-2603

(212) 613-5086

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.

SKELOS, J.P., FLORIO, BALKIN and LEVENTHAL, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court