MATTER OF SCOTT SHEPHERD V JAMIE STOCKER
Motion No: CAF 16-01336
Slip Opinion No: 2016 NY Slip Op 92873(U)
Decided on November 23, 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.


November 23, 2016

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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 16-01336
DOCKET NO. V-00909-10-15E

MATTER OF SCOTT SHEPHERD, PETITIONER-APPELLANT,

V

JAMIE STOCKER, RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.


Respondent-respondent having moved 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, Lewis County, entered in the office of the Clerk of said Court on June 21, 2016,

Now, upon reading and filing the affidavit of Jamie Stocker, sworn to September 13, 2016, the notice of motion with proof of service thereof, and the statement of Joan E. McNichol, Esq., dated September 26, 2016, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the motion is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Donald R. Gerace, Esq., 2613 Genesee Street, Utica, New York 13501, is hereby assigned as counsel for respondent-respondent herein and may submit ten copies of respondent's brief reproduced in accordance with CPLR 5529.

Entered: November 23, 2016

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk