In re Raquel Marie X.

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1990-07-10

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*394 OPINION OF THE COURT Kaye, J. The focus of these appeals, involving the adoption of newborn infants, is Domestic Relations Law § 111 (1), which provides that — while an unwed mother’s consent is always required — an unwed father’s consent to the adoption of his under-six-month-old child is required only where he has openly lived with the child or…

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