Legal Opinion
Hagler v. Finch
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 4, 1971No. 25758PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
The Social Security Act grants insurance benefits to the dependent child of a wage earner receiving disability benefits. We are asked to construe the portions of the Act that determine an adopted child’s eligibility for this award.
Grant and Edith Hagler undertook the care of their daughter’s newly born illegitimate child, Consuela, in December 1964. The Haglers commenced formal adoption proceedings in the Arizona Superior Court for Pima County in February 1966. That court issued a final order of adoption on September 18, 1967.
Grant Hagler had been drawing…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dandridge v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
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