Opinion
2014-01-29
In the Matter of TREVLON (Anonymous). Veronica W. (Anonymous), et al., respondents; Trevlon B. (Anonymous), appellant.
Elliot Green, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant. Gelb & Black, P.C., Brooklyn, N.Y. (James I. Gelb of counsel), for respondents.
Elliot Green, Brooklyn, N.Y., for appellant. Gelb & Black, P.C., Brooklyn, N.Y. (James I. Gelb of counsel), for respondents.
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P., PETER B. SKELOS, CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, and L. PRISCILLA HALL, JJ.
In an adoption proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law article 7, the biological father appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Family Court, Kings County (Hepner, J.), dated August 24, 2012, as, upon granting the motion of the adoptive parents to confirm the report of a Judicial Hearing Officer (Ross, J.H.O.) dated May 24, 2012, made after a hearing, determined that he is not a person whose consent to adoption is required pursuant to Domestic Relations Law § 111.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
In this adoption proceeding pursuant to Domestic Relations Law article 7, the adoptive parents moved to confirm a reportof a Judicial Hearing Officer (hereinafter the JHO) which, after a hearing, recommended a determination that the father of the subject child is not a person whose consent to adoption is required pursuant to Domestic Relations Law § 111. The father did not oppose the motion of the adoptive parents, and did not cross-move to reject the report. Therefore, the father waived his contentions that his consent is required for the subject adoption and that the JHO exceeded his authority under the order of reference, which are raised on appeal in the context of objections to the JHO's report ( see O'Donnell v. O'Donnell, 80 A.D.3d 586, 914 N.Y.S.2d 300; Matter of Thomas v. Murphy, 2 A.D.3d 1404, 768 N.Y.S.2d 917).
The father's remaining contentions are not properly before this Court or are without merit.