Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. v. Chambless

MORRIS, Chief Judge.

This action concerns the effect of an extrastate adoption on the law of testamentary disposition in North Carolina. We must first determine whether the Missouri adoption orders are entitled to full faith and credit in North Carolina.

Copies of the decrees, duly authenticated pursuant to Title 28, U.S.C. § 1738 (N.C. Gen. Stat., Appendix IV, Replacement Vol. 1970), were introduced into evidence. The trial court held that “[t]he adoptions of James Edward Farish in 1940 and William Whitaker Farish in 1941 were duly ordered by the Court having jurisdiction over the subject…