IN THE MATTER OF RELA S. SCOTT V DEREK L. BEARD
Motion No: CAF 23-00887
Slip Opinion No: 2023 NY Slip Op 73011(U)
Decided on August 30, 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.


August 30, 2023

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

CAF 23-00887
Docket Nos: V-06992-19/19A, V-06992-19/19B

IN THE MATTER OF RELA S. SCOTT, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT,

V

DEREK L. BEARD, 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 March 6, 2023,

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 Mindy Marranca, Esq., 70 Niagara Street, Suite 401, Buffalo, New York 14202, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Erie County Family Court Clerk provide Mindy Marranca, 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: August 30, 2023

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court