Cranston v. L.R.B.

PRESIDING JUSTICE COOK

delivered the opinion of the court:

The issue in this case is whether a father can control the selection of the adoptive parents of his child by executing a specific consent in their favor, when that child is a ward of the court. We answer that question in the negative and affirm the decision of the trial court.

L.R.B. was born July 16, 1993. She resided with her mother until August 1994, when she was found to be neglected and was placed with a foster family. Her half-brother, born March 12, 1990, had been placed with the same family a year earlier. The Department of…