Court of Appeals of New York

Judgment upholding a Family Court's findings that an extrajudicial surrender by the birth mother was invalid, and that the biological father met the criteria for consent is reversed and remanded where: 1) the record did not support a determination that the birth mother surrendered her child under duress; and 2) the family's gestures in this case, an offer to take the birth mother shopping for maternity clothes and certain telephone calls, were insubstantial for purposes of establishing a man's status as a consent father.

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• Decided 06/03/2008
• Published 06/03/2008

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• Court of Appeals of New York

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