Legal Opinion
In re Ida Denise W.
New York City Family Court
Decided March 29, 1974PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtStanley Gartenstein, J.
The celebrated case of People ex rel. Scarpetta v. Spence-Chapin Adoption Serv. (28 N Y 2d 185) was decided by the Court of Appeals on April 7, 1971. Looking past the rhetoric and headlines it generated, the results brought into focus an area of jurisprudence concerning the rights of foster parents which required study by. the Legislature. When all the furor was quieted, this labor commenced and yielded a series of amendments to existing statutes, which conferred certain rights upon foster parents who had retained custody of an infant for 24 months or more.1 These enactments colloquially…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In re Carla L.New York City Family Court · 1974
3Cited by13 opinions
- Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality & ReformSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- People Ex Rel. Ninesling v. Nassau County Department of Social ServicesNew York Court of Appeals · 1978
- In re Patricia A. W.New York City Family Court · 1977
- Organization of Foster Familes for Equality & Reform v. DumpsonDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1976
- Bryant v. COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES, ETC.District Court, S.D. New York · 1982
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