Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M145572

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WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.

REINALDO E. RIVERA

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS

PLUMMER E. LOTT, JJ.

2012-01022 In the Matter of April W. (Anonymous). Suffolk County Department of Social Services, respondent; Anastasia W. (Anonymous), appellant. (Docket No. N-4664/11)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant pro se for leave to prosecute an appeal from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County, dated December 20, 2011, as a poor person.

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 branch of the motion which is for leave to prosecute the appeal on the original papers is denied as unnecessary; 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 children, 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 motion is otherwise denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that on the Court's own motion, the appellant's time to perfect the appeal by causing the original papers constituting the record on the appeal to be filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court (see 22 NYCRR 670.4[a][2]) and by serving and filing the appellant's brief on the appeal is enlarged until December 14, 2012.

MASTRO, J.P., RIVERA, CHAMBERS and LOTT, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court