Sommerville v. Erie County Department of Social Services

Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Family Court properly determined that the father’s consent to the adoptions was not required. Domestic Relations Law § 111 (1) (d) provides that consent to adoption shall be required "[o]f the father, whether adult or infant, of a child born out-of-wedlock and placed with the adoptive parents more than six months after birth, but only if such father shall have maintained substantial and continuous or repeated contact with the child as manifested by: (i) the payment by the father toward the support of the child of a fair and reasonable sum,…