New York Laws
Title 3 - Private-Placement Adoption
115-C - Temporary Guardianship by Adoptive Parent.

§ 115-c. Temporary guardianship by adoptive parent. In any case where
physical custody of a child is transferred from the child's parent or
guardian to another person or persons for the purposes of adoption and a
consent to the adoption of such child has been executed pursuant to
section one hundred fifteen-b of this title, the adoptive parent or
parents shall, within ten court days of taking physical custody, either
file a petition for adoption with a court of competent jurisdiction or
file an application for temporary guardianship of the person of the
child pursuant to this section with the court in which the adoption will
be filed, pursuant to section seventeen hundred twenty-five of the
surrogate's court procedure act or section six hundred sixty-one of the
family court act except as otherwise provided herein. Such application
shall include an affidavit by the adoptive parent or parents describing
any change of circumstances since their certification as a qualified
adoptive parent or parents, pursuant to section one hundred fifteen-d of
this title, which may be material to such certification. Such a
petition for adoption shall also be deemed an application for temporary
guardianship, where no prior application for an order for temporary
guardianship has been filed.

In any case where the adoptive parent or parents take physical custody
of an adoptive child and requirements for certification as a qualified
adoptive parent or parents have been waived, pursuant to section one
hundred fifteen-d of this title, an application for temporary
guardianship or petition for adoption for such child shall be filed with
the court not later than five court days from obtaining physical custody
of such child. Such time period may be extended upon motion of any
person or upon the court's own motion for good cause shown.

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