MATTER OF ROBERT


196 Misc.2d 669 (2003)

766 N.Y.S.2d 311

In the Matter of the Adoption of a Child Whose First Name is ROBERT.

Family Court, Orange County.

July 28, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denise Seidelman, Yorktown Heights, for petitioners.

Legal Aid Society of Orange County, Inc., Goshen (Maria Patrizio of counsel), for biological father.

Cheryl E. Maxim, Goshen, Law Guardian.


OPINION OF THE COURT

DEBRA J. KIEDAISCH, J.

Petitioner adoptive parents move to limit the pending hearing, which is to determine whether the consent of the biological father of the adoption of his out-of-wedlock child may be dispensed with, to a hearing in which the issue will be whether the father shall be adjudged to be equitably estopped from asserting his claim to paternity of the child. Petitioners cite to various custody cases in which the biological...

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