In re the Adoption of Anonymous

Harry G. Herman, S.

Section 111 of the Domestic Relations Law provides that in an adoption proceeding ‘ ‘ The consent shall not be required of a parent who has abandoned the child ”. In this application, the father opposes the adoption of his 11-year-old son by the husband of his former wife, the boy’s mother, and denies any abandonment.

Certain facts were stipulated at the outset of the hearing: the objecting father and the child’s mother were married in October, 1950; the child was born in March, 1952; the parents separated three years later and a separation agreement was entered into in…