Nina M. v. Otsego County Department of Social Services

—White, J.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Warren County (Austin, J.), entered August 19, 1994, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law article VII, for abrogation of the adoption of Salvatore Y. due to lack of standing.

Petitioner was the foster parent of Salvatore Y. from February 18,1986, when he was four days old, until May 1991, when due to behavioral problems he was removed from petitioner’s home with her consent and placed in another foster home. Prior thereto, in January 1991, respondent Otsego County Department of Social…