Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M301714

AFA/

VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, J.P.

HELEN VOUTSINAS

LILLIAN WAN

LAURENCE L. LOVE, JJ.

2023-07929 Janice Collins, respondent, v Jennifer Collins, appellant. (Index No. 725856/2021)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated April 24, 2023.

Motion by the appellant to stay enforcement of the order, pending hearing and determination of the appeal, and to relieve Bruce R. Bekritsky and substitute Jakubowski, Robertson, Maffei, Goldsmith & Tartaglia, LLP, as counsel for the appellant. Motion by the respondent to extend the time to serve and file a brief.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion by the appellant and the papers filed in opposition thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of the motion by the respondent and no papers having been filed in opposition or in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is to stay enforcement of the order, pending hearing and determination of the appeal, is denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is to relieve Bruce R. Bekritsky and substitute Jakubowski, Robertson, Maffei, Goldsmith & Tartaglia, LLP, as counsel for the appellant is denied as academic as a consent to change attorney has been filed (see 22 NYCRR 670.1[c][4][A]); and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion by respondent is granted, and on or before January 27, 2025, the respondent shall serve and file the respondent's brief via NYSCEF, if applicable, or, if NYSCEF is not mandated, serve the brief and upload a digital copy of the brief, with proof of service thereof, through the digital portal on this Court's website.

BRATHWAITE NELSON, J.P., VOUTSINAS, WAN and LOVE, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court