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MATTER OF ADOPTION OF DOE

No. 20

14 N.Y.3d 100 (2010)

923 N.E.2d 1129

896 N.Y.S.2d 741

2010 NY Slip Op 1345

In the Matter of the Adoption of JOHN DOE, an Infant. LMB, Respondent; ERJ, Appellant. L.M.B., Respondent,

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided February 16, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Newman & Greenberg, New York City (Richard A. Greenberg and Steven Y. Yurowitz of counsel), for appellant.

Cohen Hennessey Bienstock & Rabin P.C., New York City (Bonnie E. Rabin and Timothy W. James of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge LIPPMAN and Judges CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, READ, PIGOTT and JONES concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SMITH, J.

The parties to this proceeding are former lovers who never married but who, while they were romantically involved, brought a Cambodian child to the United States, and planned to adopt him together. The adoption proceedings became complicated; the couple broke up; and now each claims to be the child's only parent.

Before us on this appeal is an order of the Surrogate, affirmed by the Appellate Division, which granted...

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