In re Adoption of Baby T.

COOK, J.S.C.

INTRODUCTION

In what appears to be an issue of first impression in New Jersey, this court is asked to set aside a final judgment of adoption entered more than two years ago, on grounds that four months after the birth of the adoptive child, Baby T., and the voluntary surrender of all parental rights by his birth mother 1 as *348well as four months after the child was lawfully placed in the custody of his adoptive parents by a State-approved and licensed adoption agency, the cluld unexpectedly died prior to the final hearing on his adoption. The motion to vacate the adoption is brought…