IN THE MATTER OF ZAKIYYAH T.
Motion No: CAF 22-00476
Slip Opinion No: 2022 NY Slip Op 65324(U)
Decided on April 27, 2022
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.


April 27, 2022

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

CAF 22-00476
Docket No: NA-14079-19
CAF 22-00477
Docket No: NA-14080-19

IN THE MATTER OF ZAKIYYAH T.



ERIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES,

PETITIONER-RESPONDENT;

LAMAR R., RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.

IN THE MATTER OF SHAYMARI R.

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ERIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES,

PETITIONER-RESPONDENT;

LAMAR R., RESPONDENT-APPELLANT, AND

JEANETTE R., RESPONDENT.


Respondent-appellant having applied for permission to proceed as a poor person and for assignment of counsel on the appeals taken herein from orders of the Family Court, Erie County, entered March 7, 2022,

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

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Caitlin M. Connelly, Esq., 170 Manhattan Avenue, PO Box 292, Buffalo, New York 14215, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeals, and

It is further ORDERED that the Erie County Family Court Clerk provide Caitlin M. Connelly, Esq., with copies of all papers and transcripts of stenographic, digitally recorded, or audiotaped minutes, if any, of the proceedings upon which the appeals are based, and

It is further ORDERED that the transcripts, if any, shall be filed with the Erie County Family Court Clerk, within 30 days of the date of this order, pursuant to Family Court Act § 1121 (7), and

It is further ORDERED that the records and briefs are to be filed and served within 60 days of the filing of the transcripts with the Erie County Family Court Clerk.

Entered: April 27, 2022

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court