Chaya S. v. Herbert L.

In a proceeding, inter alia, to vacate a private placement adoption, the biological mother Chaya S. appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Surrogate’s Court, Queens County (Nahman, S.), dated April 8, 1994, as, after a nonjury trial, (1) dismissed the proceeding, (2) denied her application for pendente lite "sibling visitation”, and (3) directed her to pay the respondents costs pursuant to SCPA 2302.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the facts, the first through fourth decretal paragraphs are vacated, (1) the petition is granted, the…