Matter of Amber A.
2007 NY Slip Op 10376 [46 AD3d 1470]
December 21, 2007
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 13, 2008


In the Matter of Amber A. and Another, Infants. Erie County Department of Social Services, Respondent; Steven V., II, Respondent, and Kathy A., Appellant. (Appeal No. 1.)

[*1] William D. Broderick, Jr., Elma, for respondent-appellant.

David C. Schopp, Law Guardian, the Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., Buffalo (Charles D. Halvorsen of counsel), for Amber A. and Andrew V.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Erie County (Patricia A. Maxwell, J.), entered August 2, 2006 in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 10. The order, among other things, granted petitioner's motion and directed respondent Kathy A. to submit to a parenting skills assessment.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Hurlbutt, J.P., Martoche, Smith, Peradotto and Pine, JJ.