The People v. Angelo Burgos

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• rejecting the argument that by enacting the open adoption agreement statute, the Legislature intended to prohibit judges from using their equitable power to order postadoption visitation where the parties had not entered into such an agreement
• cautioning judges against \meddling in the child's and adoptive family's life\
• child’s need for future contact with biological parents is “a matter that is properly left to the wise guidance of [the child’s] new family”
• “[w]hat may be in [a child’s] best interest at [an earlier age] says little about his best interests [as he gets older]”
• “a judge .... may revisit the question of postadoption contact, if necessary, for the best interests of the child due to changed circumstances.”
• orders for postadoption visitation are \based on emotional bonding and other circumstances of the actual personal relationship of the child and the biological parent\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).