In re Efrain C.

This civil proceeding against a mother for neglect of her child presents two questions as to the construction and application of the child-adoption laws of New York 'State. The first provision in issue is the clause of section 111 of the Domestic Relations Law, providing that a parent’s consent to an adoption shall not be required if he has been judicially deprived of his child’s custody by reason of neglect. Upon the precedents discussed below, the court concludes that this statute authorizes the adoption of the child herein without the mother’s consent.1 The second statutory problem turns…