A family court judge has overturned a six-month-old New York law that automatically disqualifies persons with criminal records of violent felonies from adopting children. The judge said that a Brooklyn woman is entitled to a chance to prove herself fit to adopt four girls for whom she had been caring as a foster parent. Under the law, would-be adoptive parent's petition would have been automatically denied, since the woman pleaded guilty to manslaughter for killing an abusive boyfriend 21 years ago.
September 16, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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A Brooklyn Family Court judgehas overturned a six-month-old state law that automatically disqualifiespersons with criminal records of violent felonies from adopting children.
Judge Philip C. Segal saidthat a Brooklyn woman is entitled to a chance to prove herself fit to adoptfour girls for whom she had been caring as a foster parent.
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