IN THE MATTER OF GINA MARIE GARCIA V JAMES M. RIDGWAY
Motion No: CAF 19-01534
Slip Opinion No: 2019 NY Slip Op 78768(U)
Decided on August 27, 2019
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.


August 27, 2019

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

CAF 19-01534
Docket Nos: V-00567-15/18B, V-00567-15/19C

IN THE MATTER OF GINA MARIE GARCIA,

PETITIONER-APPELLANT,

V

JAMES M. RIDGWAY, RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.


Petitioner-appellant 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, Niagara County, entered July 22, 2019,

Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the motion is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that David J. Farrugia, Esq., Niagara County Public Defender, 175 Hawley Street, Lockport, New York 14094-2740, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Family Court, Niagara County, provide David J. Farrugia, 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 record and briefs are to be filed and served within 60 days of the filing of the transcripts with the Niagara County Family Court Clerk's Office.

Entered: August 27, 2019

Mark W. Bennett

Clerk of the Court