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MATTER OF WADDELL

64 A.D.2d 577 (1978)

In the Matter of the Commitment of "Female" Waddell and Another. Spence-Chapin Adoption Service, Respondent; Charlotte E. Waddell et al., Appellants

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

July 18, 1978

Lane and Sullivan, JJ., dissent in a memorandum by Sullivan, J., as follows: In this commitment proceeding brought pursuant to section 384 of the Social Services Law to free twin minor children for eventual adoption, without parental consent, petitioner asserts abandonment as the ground for the relief sought (Social Services Law, §§ 371, 384). After a trial, the Surrogate, concededly with good intentions, placed great stress on and seems to have been persuaded by...

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