Section 111 of the Domestic Relations Law provides that in an adoption proceeding "The consent shall not be required of a parent who has abandoned the child". In this application, the father opposes the adoption of his 11-year-old son by the husband of his former wife, the boy's mother, and denies any abandonment.
Certain facts were stipulated at the outset of the hearing: the objecting...
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