Court Opinion

ID: 4806599
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-21 06:41:10.609201+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:10:25.375037
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SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge
(specially concurring).
I entirely agree that the final judgment of adoption is a nullity. Even if the motivation and the means for securing it were not so reprehensible, I believe, as the New York Court of Appeals held in In re Adoption of Robert Paid P., 63 N.Y.2d 233, 236, 481 N.Y.S.2d 652, 471 N.E.2d 424 (1984), the adoption of a paramour is so- contrary to the beneficent purposes of such an action that no such judgment can ever be sustained.