MATTER OF JEROME GARNER, JR. V KRISTINE MERKEL
Motion No: CAF 16-01020
Slip Opinion No: 2016 NY Slip Op 79594(U)
Decided on July 12, 2016
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.


July 12, 2016

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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 16-01020
DOCKET NOS. V-00822-23-15

MATTER OF JEROME GARNER, JR., PETITIONER-RESPONDENT,

V

KRISTINE MERKEL, RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.


Respondent-appellant having applied 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, Erie County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on May 31, 2016,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of John P. Luhr, Esq., dated June 13, 2016, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Charles J. Greenberg, Esq., 3480 East Robinson Road, Suite 318, Amherst, New York 14228-2001, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Family Court, Erie County, is hereby directed to provide Charles J. Greenberg, 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: July 12, 2016

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk