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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 16-02311
DOCKET NOS. NN-08530-16 AND NN-08529-16

MATTER OF RHIANNON H.-W. AND JUDE S.H. ERIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT; ELIZABETH E.H.-W., 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, Family County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on November 21, 2016,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of Bernadette Hoppe, Esq., dated December 28, 2016, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Bernadette Hoppe, Esq., 137 Summer Street, Buffalo, New York 14222, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Family Court, Erie County, provide Bernadette Hoppe, 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, and

It is further ORDERED that the transcripts, if any, shall be filed with the Clerk of the Family Court, Erie County, within 30 days of the date of this order, pursuant to Family Court Act § 1121 (7).

Entered: February 14, 2017

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk