New York Court of Appeals
The People of the State of New York ex rel. Olga Scarpetta v. Spence-Chapin Adoption…
April 7, 197128 N.Y.2d 185
Summary
The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the Appellate Division’s order returning the infant to its natural mother, holding that a surrender to an authorized adoption agency may be revoked when the surrender was improvident and the child’s best interests are served, and rejecting the prospective adoptive parents’ attempt to intervene under OPLB 1012.