MATTER OF BEHRENS v. RIMLAND


32 A.D.3d 929 (2006)

822 N.Y.S.2d 285

In the Matter of DENISE BEHRENS, Appellant, v. BEATRICE RIMLAND, Respondent.

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

September 19, 2006.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The petition alleges, and the respondent does not dispute, that the parties lived together from at least 1994 through April 3, 2005, and that sometime in 1998 they started planning to adopt a child from China. The petition further alleges that, because Chinese law prohibits same-sex couples from adopting, only one of them could undertake the adoption in China. They agreed that the respondent, who...

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