MATTER OF WALKER


87 A.D.2d 435 (1982)

In the Matter of Foster Care Status of Kim Walker and Others. John Bryant et al., Respondents; Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York et al., Appellants

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

June 29, 1982


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Trudi Mara Schleifer of counsel (Leonard Koerner with her on the brief; Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Corporation Counsel, attorney), for Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York, appellant.

William J. Manning of counsel (Roy L. Reardon, Edward J. Nowak and John N. O'Shea with him on the brief; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, attorneys), for Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children, appellant.

Stanley A. Bass of counsel (Mark H. Spires, attorney), for respondents.

Susan Larabee of counsel (Kay McNally with her on the brief; Lenore Gittis, attorney), as Law Guardian for the children.

SANDLER, J. P., and FEIN, J., concur with MILONAS, J.; SULLIVAN and MARKEWICH, JJ., dissent in an opinion by MARKEWICH, J.


MILONAS, J.

Appellants Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children (Spence-Chapin) and the Commissioner of Social Services of the City of New York appeal from two orders of the Family Court which, in part, stayed adoption of the subject children, ordered a fair hearing on the propriety of their removal from their foster home and directed a foster care hearing to determine whether the placement of the children...

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