Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M172906

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REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

ROBERT J. MILLER

SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX

COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

2013-11153 In the Matter of Dante L. (Anonymous). Suffolk County Department of Social Serv petitioner-respondent; Danac L. (Anonymo respondent-appellant. (Docket No. N-16493/13)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION ices, us),

Appeal by Danac L. from an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County, dated November 7, 2013. By order to show cause dated February 27, 2014, the parties or their attorneys were directed to show cause before this Court why an order should or should not be made and entered relieving the attorney assigned by order on certification of this Court dated January 17, 2014, to perfect the appeal on behalf of the appellant on the ground that the attorney had been unable to contact the respondent-appellant, and dismissing the appeal.

Now, upon the order to show cause and the papers filed in response thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appeal in the above-entitled proceeding shall be perfected either within 60 days after the receipt by the assigned counsel of the transcripts of the minutes of the proceedings in the Family Court, and the assigned counsel shall notify this Court by letter of the date the transcripts are received, or, in cases where there are no minutes of proceedings to be transcribed, within 60 days of the date of this decision and order on motion; and it is further,

ORDERED that within 30 days after the date of this decision and order on motion, the assigned counsel shall file in the office of the Clerk of this Court one of the following:

(1) an affidavit or affirmation stating that there are no minutes of any Family Court proceeding to be transcribed for the appeal; or

(2) if there are such minutes, an affidavit or affirmation that the transcripts have been received, and indicating the date received; or

(3) if the transcripts have not been received, an affidavit or affirmation stating that the order on certification of this Court dated January 17, 2014, has been served upon the clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken, the date thereof, and the date by which the transcripts are expected; or

(4) an affidavit or an affirmation withdrawing the appeal; and it is further,

ORDERED that if none of the above actions described in (1), (2), (3), or (4) above, has been taken within 30 days of the date of this scheduling order, the Clerk of the Court shall issue an order to all parties to the appeal to show cause why the appeal should or should not be dismissed.

RIVERA, J.P., MILLER, HINDS-RADIX and DUFFY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court