Matter of Eric (Joy M.—Eric S.M.)
2020 NY Slip Op 00710 [179 AD3d 1457]
January 31, 2020
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 11, 2020


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 In the Matter of the Adoption of Eric and Another, Infants. Joy M. et al., Respondents; Eric S.M., Appellant.

D.J. & J.A. Cirando, PLLC, Syracuse (Rebecca L. Konst of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

Christopher A. Barton, Elmira, for petitioners-respondents.

Paul B. Watkins, Fairport, Attorney for the Children.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Steuben County (Philip J. Roche, J.), entered November 14, 2018. The order, among other things, adjudged that respondent's consent to the adoption of the subject children was not required.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs for reasons stated in the decision at Family Court [2018 NY Slip Op 52004[U] [Fam Ct, Steuben County 2018]). Present—Whalen, P.J., Carni, Bannister and DeJoseph, JJ.