MATTER OF SEBASTIAN


25 Misc.3d 567 (2009)

879 N.Y.S.2d 677

In the Matter of the Adoption of SEBASTIAN, an Infant.

Surrogate's Court, New York County.

Decided April 9, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Weiss Buell & Bell (Carol Buell of counsel), for petitioner.


OPINION OF THE COURT

KRISTIN BOOTH GLEN, S.

This case presents important questions about the ways in which a child's "parents" are defined and legally constituted, and how the parent-child relationship can be protected in a transient, cross-border society. Answers implicate assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and an outdated statutory scheme which fails to anticipate the relations created by those...

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