In re Scott

Respondent was admitted to practice by the Fourth Department in 2000 and maintains a law office in the Town of Franklin, Delaware County.

On June 4, 2008, respondent was convicted, upon her plea of guilty in the Town Court of the Town of Delhi, of offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree in violation of Penal Law § 175.30, a class A misdemeanor. Respondent knowingly and unlawfully signed and filed a false adoption petition with the Delaware County Surrogate’s Court in which she stated that a certain man was the father of a child that respondent wished to adopt when she knew…