Sorentino v. Family & Children's Society of Elizabeth

These proceedings have their origin in the attempt of an unwed mother to regain custody of the child she had surrendered for placement for adoption by an adoption agency, The Family and Children’s Society of Elizabeth. This Court previously found sufficient evidence to support the trial court’s finding that the natural mother’s consent to surrender to the agency had not been voluntarily given. Therefore, on the record then before us, the surrender was void ab initio and the mother “[could] not be held to have lost her rights to custody of the child merely because it might be determined that…