Matter of Michaela B.D.
2008 NY Slip Op 10417 [57 AD3d 1509]
December 31, 2008
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, February 11, 2009


In the Matter of the Adoption of Michaela B.D., an Infant. Gordon A.S. et al., Respondents; Arthur F.M., Appellant.

—[*1] Paul M. Deep, Utica, for respondent-appellant.

Murad and Murad, Utica (George C. Murad of counsel), for petitioners-respondents.

Norman P. Deep, Law Guardian, Clinton, for Michaela B.D.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Oneida County (James R. Griffith, J.), entered May 9, 2007 in a proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law article 7. The order determined that the consent of respondent to the adoption of his daughter is unnecessary.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Martoche, J.P., Smith, Centra, Green and Pine, JJ.