In re the Adoption & Change of Name of Walker

These are three consolidated adoption cases1 in which the adoptive parents appeal the trial court’s sua sponte vacation, on April 7, 1982, of three decrees of adoption entered February 5, 1982. We affirm.

The three adopted children — a girl, now age 10, a boy, now age 9, and a second girl, now age 8 — have all been made wards of the New York Family Court and their biological parents’ rights terminated by reason of abandonment. Each child was committed to the care and custody of Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children (SpenceChapin) of New York City. Although they are not related by…