IN THE MATTER OF FREDERICKA S. AND DELAWRENCE S.
Motion No: CAF 22-00001
Slip Opinion No: 2023 NY Slip Op 65440(U)
Decided on April 12, 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.


April 12, 2023

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

CAF 22-00001
Docket Nos: NN-02700-21, NN-02701-21

IN THE MATTER OF FREDERICKA S. AND DELAWRENCE S.



ERIE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES,

PETITIONER-RESPONDENT;

DELAWRENCE S., RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.


An order having been entered on March 17, 2022, granting respondent-appellant's application to perfect an appeal taken herein as a poor person and assigning David J. Pajak, Esq., as counsel to perfect the appeal,

Now, upon reading and filing the statement of David J. Pajak, Esq., dated April 10, 2023, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that Charles Greenberg, Esq., 3840 East Robinson Road, Suite 318, Amherst, New York 14228, is hereby substituted as counsel to conduct the above-entitled appeal taken from an order of the Family Court, Erie County, entered December 9, 2021, in place and stead of David Pajak, Esq., and

It is further ORDERED that the Erie County Family Court Clerk provide Charles Greenberg, Esq. with copies of all papers and transcripts of stenographic or audiotaped minutes, if any, of the proceedings upon which the appeal is based, and

It is further ORDERED that the time to perfect the appeal is extended to June 12, 2023, and, in the event of failure to so perfect, the appeal is hereby dismissed without further order.

Entered: April 12, 2023

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court