Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M95697

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FRED T. SANTUCCI, J.P.

RUTH C. BALKIN

RANDALL T. ENG

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, JJ.

2009-10129 In the Matter of Sandra Souza, respondent, v Betty Bennett, appellant. (Docket Nos. V-09253-08, V-9254-08)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the counsel assigned to represent the appellant by the Family Court, Suffolk County, to be relieved, for the assignment of counsel to the appellant to prosecute an appeal from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County, dated October 15, 2009, and for poor person relief.

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

ORDERED that the motion is granted, Miriam Solon Weintraub, Esq, 119 Darrow lane, Greenlawn, New York 11740, and said counsel is relieved and is directed to turn over all papers in the matter to the new counsel herein assigned; 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 attorney for the child, if any. The parties are directed to file nine 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 appeal, 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 appeal:

Edward Grossman, Esq.

135 W. Main Street

Smithtown, New York 11787

(631) 265-5864

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.

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

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court