IN THE MATTER OF HALIE "JASPER" M.
Motion No: CAF 24-01804
Slip Opinion No: 2025 NY Slip Op 61623(U)
Decided on January 22, 2025
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 22, 2025

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

CAF 24-01804
Docket No: NN-00894-22

IN THE MATTER OF HALIE "JASPER" M.



ONTARIO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES,

PETITIONER-RESPONDENT;

EMILIE L. RESPONDENT-APPELLANT,

AND MICHAEL M., RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.


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, Ontario County, entered October 22, 2024,

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 Caitlin Connelly, Esq., 170 Manhattan Avenue, PO Box 292, Buffalo, New York 14215, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Ontario County Family Court Clerk provide Caitlin Connelly, 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 transcripts, if any, shall be filed with the Ontario County Family Court Clerk, within 30 days of the date of this order, pursuant to Family Court Act § 1121 (7), 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 Ontario County Family Court Clerk.

Entered: January 22, 2025

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court