IN THE MATTER OF KAILEY FRANK V KAITLYN DAWSON
Motion No: CAF 22-02001
Slip Opinion No: 2023 NY Slip Op 63508(U)
Decided on March 14, 2023
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.


March 14, 2023

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

CAF 22-02001
Docket No: O-03450-22

IN THE MATTER OF KAILEY FRANK, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT,

V

KAITLYN DAWSON, 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, Erie County, entered November 9, 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 notice of appeal dated December 1, 2022, shall be treated as valid as to the order of Family Court entered November 9, 2022, and

It is further ORDERED that the application is granted, and

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

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

Entered: March 14, 2023

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court