MATTER OF JOSEPH


214 A.D.2d 1049 (1995)

626 N.Y.S.2d 707

In the Matter of the Adoption of Baby Boy Joseph. Dorothy R., Appellant; Adoptive Parents, Respondents

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

April 28, 1995


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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