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MATTER OF MADELINE S.

3 A.D.3d 13 (2003)

769 N.Y.S.2d 22

In the Matter of the Adoption of MADELINE S., an Infant. JACK T., Appellant; DOUGLAS S., Respondent.

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

December 11, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosin & Reiniger (Benjamin J. Rosin and Douglas H. Reiniger of counsel), for appellant.

William S. Beslow for respondent.

Philip Schiff, Law Guardian, for infant.

SULLIVAN, WILLIAMS, LERNER and FRIEDMAN, JJ., concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SAXE, J.P.

This appeal requires us to consider the showing necessary to permit the adoption of a child by a stepparent over the objection of the child's natural parent.

The child who is the subject of this adoption proceeding, Madeline S., was born on June 11, 1996, at which time her mother and respondent father, Douglas S., had been married for about eight months. Both parents are professional actors.

In July 1997, the...

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