PRESENT: SCUDDER, P.J., SMITH, CENTRA, FAHEY, AND PERADOTTO, JJ.

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 12-00097
DOCKET NO. V-18235-10

MATTER OF LONNIE BOWIE, PETITIONER-APPELLANT, V ERIE COUNTY CHILDREN'S SERVICES, RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.

Petitioner-appellant having applied for permission to proceed as a poor person and for assignment of counsel on the appeal taken herein from an order of the Family Court, Erie County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on December 15, 2011,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of Alan Birnholz, Esq., filed January 12, 2012, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Denis A. Kitchen, Jr., Esq., 8899 Main Street, Williamsville, New York 14221, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Family Court, Erie County, provide Denis A. Kitchen, Jr., Esq., with copies of all papers and transcripts of stenographic, digitally recorded, or audiotaped minutes, if any, of the proceedings had and filed in said Clerk's Office upon which the appeal is based.

Entered: February 8, 2012

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk