Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M93898

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WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.

FRED T. SANTUCCI

RANDALL T. ENG

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, JJ.

2009-09035, 2009-09036, 2009-09037 2009-09038, 2009-09039 In the Matter of Jeffrey W. (Anonymous), appellant. (Docket Nos. D-10/07, D-1684/09, D-1685/09)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant to relieve counsel assigned by the Family Court, Rockland County, for leave to prosecute appeals from five orders of the Family Court, Rockland County, all dated September 2, 2009, as a poor person, and for the assignment of new counsel.

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

ORDERED that, on the court's own motion, the above-entitled appeals are consolidated, and the parties shall file 13 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 Law Guardian, if any. The parties are directed to file 13 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'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 Law Guardian, 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:

Tennille M. Tatum-Evans, Esq.

966 St. Nicholas Ave., Suite 3D

New York, New York 10032

(347) 645-6660

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.

MASTRO, J.P., SANTUCCI, ENG and CHAMBERS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court