In re the Adoption by Emanuel T.

The infant subject of the private-placement adoption petition herein was born on September 2, 1974; she has been in petitioners’ home since September 4, 1974, when her placement therein was arranged by petitioners’ attorney. The issues herein are whether the natural mother’s consent to petitioners’ adoption of her child was valid initially; whether, if it was valid, the court should permit its revocation; and whether the welfare and best interests of the infant require her removal from petitioners’ home, pursuant to sections 115 and 116 of the Domestic Relations Law.

The procedure prescribed…