MATTER OF SAMUEL


78 N.Y.2d 1047 (1991)

In the Matter of Samuel, an Infant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 17, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford Robert Shapiro for appellants.

David R. Murch for respondent.

Ardeth L. Houde for John J. Rivoli, Law Guardian.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and BELLACOSA concur; Judge HANCOCK, JR., taking no part.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

On the extraordinary facts of this case, we cannot agree with appellants (the potential adoptive parents) that an extrajudicial adoption consent executed by respondent birth mother but promptly canceled by her set in motion the revocation mechanism of Domestic Relations Law § 115-b.

As respondent urges, it would be absurd...

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