Order unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum:
The Surrogate properly denied the natural mother's petition to revoke the judicial consent to adoption on the ground of duress (see, Domestic Relations Law § 115-b [2], [7]). The facts alleged by petitioner "do not constitute the `kind of force' which would sustain a finding of duress and thereby warrant the vacatur of a natural parent's consent to an adoption" (Matter of Baby Boy L....
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