MATTER OF BRENDA BENJAMIN V LEONARD F. EDDY, JR.
Motion No: CAF 12-01042
Slip Opinion No: 2012 NY Slip Op 81582(U)
Decided on August 3, 2012
Appellate Division, Fourth Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


August 3, 2012

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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 12-01042
DOCKET NO. V-00058-11-12G, V-00817-10/12I

MATTER OF BRENDA BENJAMIN, PETITIONER-APPELLANT,

V

LEONARD F. EDDY, JR., RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.


Petitioner-appellant having moved 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, Lewis County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on May 15, 2012,

Now, upon reading and filing the affidavit of Brenda Benjamin, sworn to May 23, 2012, the notice of motion with proof of service thereof, and the statement of Richard J. Graham, Esq., dated May 6, 2012, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the motion is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Scott A. Otis, Esq., PO Box 344, Watertown, New York 13601, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Family Court, Lewis County, provide Scott A. Otis, 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: August 3, 2012

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk