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- Title: Matter Raquel Marie X
- Author : Court of Appeals of New York
- Release Date : January 10, 1990
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
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[76 N.Y.2d 387 Page 394] Opinion OF THE COURT [1] 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 the mother for six continuous
months immediately preceding the child's placement for adoption, openly acknowledged his paternity during such period, and
paid reasonable pregnancy and birth expenses in accordance with his means (Domestic Relations Law 111 [1] [e]). We conclude
that the statutory requirement that the father openly live with the mother before the child's placement for adoption neither
legitimately furthers the State's interest nor sufficiently protects the father's, and that section 111 (1) (e) must therefore
be declared unconstitutional.
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