Legal Opinion

In re Vanessa B.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided September 28, 2010Published

1Opinion of the Court

Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Gayle P. Roberts, J.), entered on or about July 8, 2009, which, after a fact-finding hearing, dismissed with prejudice respondent’s paternity petition and found him entitled to neither notice of nor consent to the subject child’s adoption, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

*913Respondent failed to meet any of the criteria that would entitle him to notice as a putative father in any adoption proceeding pertaining to this child (see Domestic Relations Law § 111-a; cf. Matter of Norman Christian K., 37 AD3d 288 [2007]; Matter of Robert Z., 199 AD2d 19 [1993]).…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. In re Christian K.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2007
  2. In re Robert Z.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1993

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