PRESENT: WHALEN, P.J., SMITH, CENTRA, PERADOTTO, AND CARNI, JJ.

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 16-00429
DOCKET NO. F-02528-04-14H
APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 16-00430
DOCKET NO. F-02528-04-14I

MATTER OF CHRISTINE E. LYNCH, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, V ERNEST M. PORTER, JR., RESPONDENT-APPELLANT. MATTER OF NIAGARA COUNTY PROBATION DEPARTMENT, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, V ERNEST M. PORTER, JR., RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.

Respondent-appellant having moved for permission to proceed as a poor person and for assignment of counsel on the appeals taken herein from orders of the Family Court, Niagara County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on February 8, 2016,

Now, upon reading and filing the affidavit of Ernest M. Porter, Jr., sworn to February 19, 2016, the notice of motion with proof of service thereof, and the statement of Brian D. Seaman, Esq., dated March 3, 2016, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the motion is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that David J. Farrugia, Esq., Niagara County Public Defender, 175 Hawley Street, Lockport, New York 14094-2740, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeals, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Family Court, Niagara County, is hereby directed to provide David J. Farrugia, 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 appeals are based.

Entered: March 23, 2016

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk