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: 2024 NY Slip Op 60479(U)
Decided on January 10, 2024
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.


January 10, 2024

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.


Appellant Jacqueline 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 granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Ryan Muldoon, Esq., 126 Genesee Street, Suite 105, Auburn, New York 13021, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Seneca County Family Court Clerk provide Ryan Muldoon, 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 Seneca County Family Court Clerk.

Entered: January 10, 2024

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court