Matter of Helmeyer v Setzer
Motion No: 2025-00758
Slip Opinion No: 2025 NY Slip Op 74172(U)
Decided on August 11, 2025
Appellate Division, Second 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.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M307122

AFA/

VALERIE BRATHWAITE NELSON, J.P.

ROBERT J. MILLER

DEBORAH A. DOWLING

CARL J. LANDICINO, JJ.

2025-00758, 2025-00762, 2025-01720

In the Matter of Thomas J. Helmeyer,

appellant, v Erika Setzer, respondent.

(Docket Nos. V-1642-2018/18A,

V-1642-2018/18B)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeals from three orders of the Family Court, Queens County, dated November 8, 2024 (two orders) and January 8, 2025, respectively. Motion by the attorney for the child to be relieved and for the assignment of a new attorney for the child to respond to the appeals. Cross-motion by the appellant, inter alia, to impose sanctions upon the attorney for the child. The following named attorney was assigned as attorney for the child by the Family Court, Queens County:

Albino J. Testani

155-03 Jamaica Avenue

Jamaica, NY 11432

7118-725-1200

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

ORDERED that the motion is granted, and said attorney for the child is directed to turn over all papers in the action to new attorney for the child herein assigned; and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to Family Court Act § 1120 the following named attorney is assigned as attorney for the child:

Carol Lipton

800 Greenwood Ave., #3L

Brooklyn, NY 11218

718-436-5359

and it is further,

ORDERED that the attorney for the child shall respond to the appeals expeditiously in accordance with any scheduling order or orders issued pursuant to § 670.3(b) of the rules of this Court (22 NYCRR 670.3[b]); and it is further,

ORDERED that the attorney for the child is directed to serve a copy of this order upon the clerk of the court from which the appeals are taken; and it is further,

ORDERED that the cross-motion is denied.

BRATHWAITE NELSON, J.P., MILLER, DOWLING and LANDICINO, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Darrell M. Joseph

Clerk of the Court