Adoption of Yvette

A judge of the Suffolk County Division of the Juvenile Court Department adjudicated Yvette and Frank to be in need of care and protection, committed them to the custody of the Department of Social Services (department), and dispensed with the need for their parents’ consent to adoption. In so doing, the judge also determined that the children should not be placed in the care of either their paternal grandmother (grandmother) or their paternal great-aunt (aunt), whose dispute over the custody of the children precipitated the department’s involvement.2

The mother, the father, the grandmother,…