MATTER OF WILLIAM BRAGA V JODI ANN BELL
Motion No: CAF 16-01574
Slip Opinion No: 2017 NY Slip Op 65749(U)
Decided on February 28, 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.


February 28, 2017

PRESENT: WHALEN, P.J., LINDLEY, NEMOYER, CURRAN, AND TROUTMAN, JJ.

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 16-01574
DOCKET NOS. V-629-15, V-2416-15

MATTER OF WILLIAM BRAGA, PETITIONER-APPELLANT,

V

JODI ANN BELL, 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, Onondaga County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on March 31, 2016,

Now, upon reading and filing the affidavit of Jodi A. Bell, sworn to January 25, 2017, the notice of motion with proof of service thereof, and the affidavit of Lisa M. Fahey, Esq., sworn to February 9, 2017, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the motion 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 for respondent-respondent herein and may submit ten copies of respondent's brief reproduced in accordance with CPLR 5529, together with proof of service, on or before April 14, 2017, and the Clerk is directed to accept said briefs for filing, and

It is further ORDERED that the appeal is removed from the day calendar of this Court for March 9, 2017, and added to the calendar for the term of Court commencing May 15, 2017.

Entered: February 28, 2017

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk