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MATTER OF GREENE COUNTY DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. WARD

8 N.Y.3d 1007 (2007)

870 N.E.2d 1132

839 N.Y.S.2d 702

In the Matter of GREENE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, on Behalf of JEFFREY WARD, Respondent, v. DAWN WARD, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 12, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Office of Anne Reynolds Copps, Albany (Anne Reynolds Copps and Heena Shaikh of counsel), for appellant.

Heather K. Sheehan, Catskill, for respondent.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, READ, SMITH, PIGOTT and JONES concur; Chief Judge KAYE concurs in an opinion in which Judge CIPARICK also concurs.

OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs.

In 2000, Dawn Ward, an unmarried registered nurse, contacted Downey Side Families for Youth with hopes of adopting a special needs child. She was presented with Jeffrey, born prematurely at 27 weeks. Although Jeffrey tested positive for cocaine and syphilis at birth, Ms. Ward was informed that his mother had not habitually used drugs and alcohol...

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