In re Anonymous

Harry G. Herman, S.

In connection with their amended petition for adoption, to which the natural mother has filed an amended answer, the foster parents move to dismiss the natural mother’s petition to revoke her consent to the adoption of her child and for the return of her child to her. The movants urge that the court lacks jurisdiction of the subject matter of the natural mother’s petition and that her sole remedy is a habeas corpus proceeding in the Supreme Court.

As a court of equitable jurisdiction (Matter of Wilson, 298 N. Y. 398, 404) this court as an incident to an adoption proceeding…