IN THE MATTER OF MICHAEL C. WELLS AND JACQUELINE M. FREELAND V DAWN M. FREELAND AND JACQUELINE M. FREELAND AND MICHAEL
Motion No: CAF 23-01476
Slip Opinion No: 2023 NY Slip Op 75334(U)
Decided on October 17, 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.


October 17, 2023

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

CAF 23-01476
Docket Nos: V-00278-14/23R, V-00278-14/23S,
V-00278-14/20O, V-00278-14/23Q,
V-00279-14/23Q, V-00279-14/23R,
V-00279-14/23S, V-00279-14/20O

IN THE MATTER OF MICHAEL C. WELLS,

PETITIONER-RESPONDENT, AND JACQUELINE M. FREELAND,

PETITIONER-APPELLANT,

V

DAWN M. FREELAND, RESPONDENT, AND

JACQUELINE M. FREELAND, RESPONDENT-APPELLANT, AND MICHAEL

C. WELLS, RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.



GARY MULDOON, ESQ., ATTORNEY FOR THE CHILDREN,

APPELLANT.


Respondent Dawn M. Freeland 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, Seneca County, entered August 3, 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 dismissed on the ground that respondent is not a proper party to the appeal.

Entered: October 17, 2023

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court