In re the Adoption of Devin F.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Chautauqua County (Judith S. Claire, J.), entered April 7, 2006 in a proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law article 7. The order dismissed the petition.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Petitioner commenced this proceeding seeking to adopt her husband’s child. According to petitioner, respondent mother had abandoned the child, and thus her consent to the adoption was not required. We conclude that Family Court properly dismissed the petition on the…