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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 16-01851
DOCKET NOS. V-09455-16, V-09456-16

MATTER OF CHRISTOPHER M. BEYER, PETITIONER-APPELLANT, V MELINDA G. HOFMANN, RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.

Petitioner-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 August 31, 2016,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of Francis Wm. Tesseyman, Jr., Esq., dated October 5, 2016, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Denis A. Kitchen, Jr., Esq., 8899 Main Street, Williamsville, New York 14221, 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 Denis A. Kitchen, Jr., 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: December 15, 2016

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk