Legal Opinion
Rosalind R. v. New York State Office of Children & Family Services
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 27, 2011Published
1Opinion of the CourtMalone Jr., J.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Tompkins County) to review a determination of respondent which denied petitioner’s request for retroactive increases in certain adoption subsidy payments.
As is relevant here, petitioner is the adoptive mother of four “hard to place” children (see 18 NYCRR 421.24 [a] [3])— Kimberlee (born in 1980), Kellianne (born in 1981), Nathan (born in 1989) and Gerry (born in 1990) — for whom she has received adoption subsidy payments.1 In 2008, the Tompkins County Department of Social Services…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Jennings v. New York State Office of Mental HealthNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
- Hosmer v. New York State Office of Children & Family ServicesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001
- Sulker v. JohnsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2009