IN THE MATTER OF KAROLINE L. DIEDRICHS-WHEELER V CHRISTOPHER G. MCAVOY
Motion No: CAF 25-00392
Slip Opinion No: 2025 NY Slip Op 69207(U)
Decided on April 23, 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.


April 23, 2025

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

CAF 25-00392
Docket No: V-00388-20/24G

IN THE MATTER OF KAROLINE L. DIEDRICHS-WHEELER,

PETITIONER-APPELLANT,

V

CHRISTOPHER G. MCAVOY, RESPONDENT-RESPONDENT.


Petitioner-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 February 14, 2025,

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 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: April 23, 2025

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court