MATTER OF COLUMBIA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. RICHARD O.


262 A.D.2d 913 (1999)

692 N.Y.S.2d 496

In the Matter of COLUMBIA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES on Behalf of WILLIAM O., Appellant, v. RICHARD O. et al., Respondents.

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

Decided June 24, 1999.


Spain, J.

The key issue on this appeal is whether respondents' child was emancipated, thereby relieving them of their obligation to pay child support. In 1985, at age five, William O. came into the care and custody of respondents through petitioner as an abused child. Respondents, who were related to William's biological mother, were parents of two older children at the time they took William into their home and, despite behavioral problems, they adopted him three...

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