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SEPARATION AGREEMENT MET THE CRITERIA OF THE ADOPTION STATUTE, PETITION TO ADOPT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED FOR LACK OF STANDING (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the separation agreement met the statutory requirement of the adoption statute. The petitioner therefore had standing to adopt without her spouse and her petition should not have been dismissed:

Domestic Relations Law § 110 dictates who has standing to adopt, and should be strictly construed in harmony with the legislative purpose that adoption is a means of securing the best possible home for a child … . As relevant here, an “adult married person who is living separate and apart from his or her spouse . . . pursuant to a written agreement of separation subscribed by the parties thereto and acknowledged or proved in the form required to entitle a deed to be recorded . . . may adopt another person” without his or her spouse … .

A separation agreement may contain substantive provisions settling marital issues such as equitable distribution and maintenance … . However, “[t]he agreement is simply intended as evidence of the authenticity and reality of the separation'” … . Thus, for example, where the substantive provisions of a separation agreement have been invalidated as unconscionable, the agreement “generally . . . may still be accepted for the sole purpose of evidencing the parties’ agreement to live separate and apart, thus satisfying the statutory requirement in respect to a separation agreement” in providing grounds for a conversion divorce under Domestic Relations Law § 170(6) … .

Here, the separation agreement evidences the parties’ agreement to live separate and apart. The agreement is in writing, subscribed by the parties thereto, and acknowledged in the form required to entitle a deed to be recorded … . Therefore, it satisfies the statutory requirement of the adoption statute with respect to a separation agreement … . Matter of Jason (Sonia O.), 2018 NY Slip Op 01922, Second Dept 3-21-18

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