In re the Adoption of Joseph

Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: The Surrogate properly denied the natural mother’s petition to revoke the judicial consent to adoption on the ground of duress (see, Domestic Relations Law § 115-b [2], [7]). The facts alleged by petitioner "do not constitute the 'kind of force’ which would sustain a finding of duress and thereby warrant the vacatur of a natural parent’s consent to an adoption” (Matter of Baby Boy L., 144 AD2d 674, 675, lv denied 74 NY2d 606, cert denied sub nom. Laurence v Anonymous, 493 US 918, citing Matter of Podmore v Our Lady of Victory Infant Home,…