MATTER OF JENNIFER "S"


69 Misc.2d 942 (1972)

In the Matter of Jennifer "s"

Surrogate's Court, New York County.

April 7, 1972


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Gruberg for Spence-Chapin Adoption Service, petitioner. Rose Bleicher, guardian ad litem. J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel (Karl D. Zukerman and Murray Blum of counsel), for Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York. Shyleur Barrach and Felice K. Shea for respondent.


MILLARD L. MIDONICK, S.

The issue drawn presents a problem so fundamental of statutory construction, and even validity, of the alleged "abandonment" by the natural mother of her infant child, that this opinion is undertaken to clarify for trial whether or how a mother can be compelled against her will to lose her child to adoptive parents, and, conversely, how a child can be freed from the obstacle of the parent's alleged unjustified refusal to surrender...

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