MATTER OF SPENCE-CHAPIN ADOPTION SERV. v. POLK


37 A.D.2d 718 (1971)

In the Matter of Spence-Chapin Adoption Service, Appellant, v. Herbert Polk et al., Respondents The People of the State of New York ex rel. Leo H. Barry, Appellant, v. Spence-Chapin Adoption Service, Appellant, and Herbert Polk et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

July 6, 1971


Judgment reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs; the writs are sustained; and respondents Polk are directed to return the child to the Spence-Chapin Adoption Service for return of custody to the natural mother.

Jean "Doe", the natural mother, was born in China in 1948 and came to the United States with her parents in 1963. In September, 1967, at the age of 18, she became pregnant by a married Chinese man. She concealed her pregnancy from her family and...

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