MATTER OF DIANE KASSELL MATTHEWS V RONALD KASSEL
Motion No: CAF 17-01974
Slip Opinion No: 2017 NY Slip Op 40038(U)
Decided on December 18, 2017
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.


December 18, 2017

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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 17-01974
DOCKET NO. F-00315-02-16J

MATTER OF DIANE KASSELL MATTHEWS, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT,

V

RONALD KASSEL, 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, Cayuga County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on July 31, 2017,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of Heidi S. Connolly, Esq., dated November 3, 2017, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Mario J. Gutierrez, Esq., 11 Court Street, Auburn, New York 13021, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Family Court, Cayuga County, is hereby directed to provide Mario J. Gutierrez, 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 18, 2017

MARK W. BENNETT, Clerk