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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 16-00860
DOCKET NO. V-04666-05-15V
APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 16-00861
DOCKET NO. V-04666-05-15W

MATTER OF MELVIN JELKS, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, V KIM WRIGHT, RESPONDENT-APPELLANT. MATTER OF MELVIN JELKS, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, V KIM WRIGHT, RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.

Respondent-appellant having applied for permission to proceed as a poor person and for assignment of counsel on the appeals taken herein from orders of the Family Court, Erie County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on May 9, 2016,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of Evan M. Lumley, Esq., filed May 20, 2016, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Bernadette Hoppe, Esq., 137 Summer Street, Buffalo, New York 14222, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeals, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Family Court, Erie County, is hereby directed to provide Bernadette Hoppe, 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: July 11, 2016

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk