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

APPELLATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. CAF 18-01342
DOCKET NO. V-7554-17

MATTER OF LEONARD MERRITT AND DEBORAH MERRITT, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, V ONONDAGA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, AND TIMETHEUS M., RESPONDENTS-RESPONDENTS, AND BIESHA D., 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, Onondaga County, entered in the Office of the Clerk of said Court on June 5, 2018,

Now, upon reading and filing the certification of Karen J. Docter, Esq., dated July 18, 2018, 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 Family 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.

Entered: August 13, 2018

MARK W. BENNETT, Clerk