IN THE MATTER OF MADDOX B.-S.
Motion No: CAF 25-00575
Slip Opinion No: 2025 NY Slip Op 69270(U)
Decided on May 7, 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.


May 7, 2025

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

CAF 25-00575
Docket No: NN-07150-23

IN THE MATTER OF MADDOX B.-S.



ONONDAGA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND

FAMILY SERVICES, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT;

KRISTOPHER M.S., RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.


Respondent-appellant having moved 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, Onondaga County, entered August 21, 2024,

Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the motion is granted, and

It is further ORDERED that Thomas Pelych, Esq., 226 Main Street, Hornell, New York 14843, is hereby assigned as counsel to conduct the appeal, and

It is further ORDERED that the Onondaga County Family Court Clerk provide Thomas Pelych, 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 Onondaga 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 Onondaga County Family Court Clerk.

Entered: May 7, 2025

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court