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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 17-00054
DOCKET NO. O-00093-16

MATTER OF SHAMECKIA LACHELLE WHITE, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, V LOVANA E. BYRD-MCGUIRE, 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 Supreme Court, Onondaga County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on November 29, 2016,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of Tricia M. Dorn, Esq., dated December 27, 2016, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Philip Rothschild, Esq., Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society, 351 South Warren Street, Syracuse, New York 13202, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County, is hereby directed to provide Philip Rothschild, 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,

It is further ORDERED that the notice of appeal filed December 27, 2016, shall be treated as valid as to the order of Supreme Court entered November 29, 2016.

Entered: January 26, 2017

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk