MATTER OF JENNIFER RICE V MICHAEL WIGHTMAN
Motion No: CAF 16-02236
Slip Opinion No: 2017 NY Slip Op 66663(U)
Decided on February 24, 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 24, 2017

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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 16-02236
DOCKET NOS. V-01213-03/15W, V-01213-03/16Y, Z

MATTER OF JENNIFER RICE, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT,

V

MICHAEL WIGHTMAN, 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, Ontario County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on October 3, 2016,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of Frederick Lester, Esq., dated December 5, 2016, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that John A. Cirando, Esq., 101 South Salina Street, Suite 1010, Syracuse, New York 13202, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Family Court, Ontario County, is hereby directed to provide John A. Cirando, 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: February 24, 2017

FRANCES E. CAFARELL, Clerk