MATTER OF JESSICA W. BENSON V JAMES T. SMITH
Motion No: CAF 18-00746
Slip Opinion No: 2018 NY Slip Op 75057(U)
Decided on May 31, 2018
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.


May 31, 2018

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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 18-00746
DOCKET NO. V-00775-17

MATTER OF JESSICA W. BENSON, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT,

V

JAMES T. SMITH, 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, Steuben County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on April 12, 2018,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of Craig A. Patrick, Esq., dated April 16, 2018, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Mary P. Davison, Esq., PO Box 652, Canandaigua, New York 14424, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Family Court, Steuben County, is hereby directed to provide Mary P. Davison, 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: May 31, 2018

MARK W. BENNETT, Clerk