Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M117561

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WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.

ANITA R. FLORIO

ARIEL E. BELEN

LEONARD B. AUSTIN, JJ.

2010-04732 In the Matter of Jay V. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, respondent; Victor V. (Anonymous), appellant. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Kenya M. (Anonymous). Administration for Children's Services, respondent; Victor V. (Anonymous), appellant. (Proceeding No. 2) (Docket Nos. NA-07205-09, NA-07206-09)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel to be relieved on an appeal from an order of the Family Court, Kings County, dated April 14, 2010. By order to show cause dated February 10, 2011, the parties or their attorneys were directed to show cause before this Court why an order should or should not be made and entered dismissing the appeal in the above-entitled proceeding on the ground that the appellant has, in effect, abandoned the appeal by failing to respond to correspondence by assigned counsel, and the motion by the appellant's assigned counsel was held in abeyance in the interim

Upon the order to show cause and no papers having been filed in response thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of the assigned counsel's motion and no papers having been filed in opposition or in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion by the appellant's assigned counsel to be relieved is granted.

MASTRO, J.P., FLORIO, BELEN and AUSTIN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Matthew G. Kiernan

Clerk of the Court